Thursday 5 December 2013

Re: Ubuntu Server seeded package review

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:56:59AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote:
> What do you mean 'd-i-based' images ?

Er. Anything that uses d-i to install.

> I don't really even have a big beef with aptitude, other than I think its
> silly that we have two 'apt' programs installed in the images, and I
> suspect that the vast number of developers use 'apt', not 'aptitude'. In
> my head that means aptitude is more likely to be broken, and at best "the
> same".

While I'm not aptitude's biggest fan, the reason tasksel uses it is that
nothing else can plausibly support its "Manual package selection" mode.

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Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

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