Re: Very few packages selected during install

2003-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Hm. Maybe it would be useful if tasksel output a status line saying > "tasksel: installing standard-priority packages" when the -s flag is > given? That way people would have a mental hook they can grab hold of > for what's going on, and a quick look at the man page later will

Re: Very few packages selected during install

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:39:48PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > You can select that set at the command line by running tasksel -risn. > > I'd like to make this more obvious, but trying to explain the distinction > at install time runs the risk of overloading the new Debian user who jus > wants a reas

Re: Very few packages selected during install

2003-02-26 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Pepas wrote: > I have observed the following behavior with debian woody (3.0) installs: > > - if you say "no" to tasksel, a very very minimal set of packages are > installed. > - if you say "yes" to tasksel, but don't select any packages, a bunch more > packages are installed than the abov