On 26/12/2025 14:54, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 25/12/2025 à 19:59, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :
Debian seems to have tasksel lists for various desktop environments.
Is there something similar for common command-line tools ?
[...]
What Redhat calls package groups is roughly equivalent to what Debian
calls either tasks (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/tasks/) or
metapackages (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/metapackages/),
depending on their scope.
The only task I have noticed that looks like a collection of command
line tools is "live-task-standard".
On 27/12/2025 00:41, Jan Claeys wrote:
The "basic collection of common command-line tools" would be what is
installed by default.
apt list '~pimportant|~prequired'
is a rather minimal set of packages.
I think, "common" varies too much across users and nobody has managed to
clusterize groups with similar requirements in respect to useful tools.
Nicolas, I have nothing against ansible, but I could not recall if you
mentioned that preseeding is not suitable for you
<https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/amd64/apb.en.html>
Depending on your needs, it might be an alternative.
