Debian-installer can't be (and isn't) told not to install recommends by default.
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tasksel (Ubuntu) |
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Hi
I did a command line install of Ubuntu 8.10-beta using the ubuntu-
I was not expecting it to pull in dependancies like:
consolekit
dbus
dbus-x11
libck-connector0
libdbus-glib-1-2
libpam-ck-connector
libx11-6
libx11-data
libaxu6
libxcb-xlib0
libxcb1
libxdmcp6
libext6
libxmuu1
x11-common
xauth
xml-core
which are all "Recommends" type of dependancies for various packages in ubuntu-standard.
A command line install should not have *any* of the above packages since the command line install seed is usually used to build minimal lightweight installs of Ubuntu.
I believe that the fault doesn't lie in the ubuntu-standard package itself, but may lie in the installer.
regards
Jinesh
This probably is a debian-installer bug but I don't want to e-mail the Debian Install System Team <email address hidden> regarding this since they'll probably bite my head off for reporting an Ubuntu issue to them. :-(