On Thu, 2025-12-25 at 19:59 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > I'm currently writing a series of Ansible roles and playbooks to > install Debian Trixie on servers and desktops. > > On RHEL-based systems you can use dnf group install Base to get a > reasonably complete set of command-line tools like vim, tree, man > pages, links, lynx, pinfo, etc.
The "basic collection of common command-line tools" would be what is installed by default. Beyond that it surely depends on personal/organisational preferences as to what is considered "reasonably complete"? > Of course I can still try to make a list of all the command-line > tools I'm using in my daily work. But before doing that I wonder if > there isn't some easier way to do this. You could create your own metapackage for this purpose. A package with tools that might be useful for this is 'equivs' (it doesn’t require much "real" packaging experience). -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
