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Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

From Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?
Date 2015-10-31 20:40 +0100
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El 31/10/15 a las 13:22, Brian escribió:
> On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 16:24:36 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 31 October 2015 16:18:15 Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
>>>
>>> I have also noticed that Debian installs a lot of "extra" programs by
>>> default. For example, when I installed LXDE using the latest (Debian 7)
>>> LXDE CD and, I obtained LibreOffice, Iceweasel and Deluge (among many
>>> others), none of which are part of LXDE, and of those, I only wanted
>>> Icweasel installed since the beginning.
>>>
>>> If you want to control more precisely which packages get installed, you
>>> can also install a text-only system and then add the additional packages
>>> with the package manager. It won't give the same results and isn't as
>>> flexible as Debootstrap or Multistrap, of course.
>>
>> It isn't Debian that installs all those packages.  It's the DE. All anyone has
>> to do to avoid them is not install a DE.  You are given the option.
>
> Sorry to disagree here, but the packages brought in by LXDE (particularily
> the Recommends:) are determined by the maintainer. Also, getting LXDE from
> tasksel is not the same as with 'apt-get install lxde'.

As bought in by the LXDE packages of *Debian*, because of the decision 
of a *Debian* developer. You missed the “Debian” part.

> Someone who wanted a customised LXDE installation would not be using
> tasksel or 'apt-get install lxde'. Someone who does use either of these
> methods gets what Debian decides is useful for most users.

I agree. Note that this does not contradict the claim that what I called 
“extras” (LibreOffice, etc.) are installed by Debian. Also note that I 
mentioned the Debian 7.0.2 LXDE CD, not apt-get nor tasksel.

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  Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid? Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-31 12:40 +0100
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      Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 23:50 +0100
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