Ubuntu Server seeded package review

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Thu Dec 5 16:16:31 UTC 2013


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 at ubuntu.com]




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