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Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/???

From Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/???
Date 2018-07-19 15:40 +0200
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Richard Owlett:
> 
> That leads to asking two related questions:
>  1. How can I get a list of packages tagged as required?

Aptitude is great for answering questions like this:

$ aptitude search '?priority(required) ?archive(stable)'

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html

>  2. What section of the installer installs packages tagged as required?
>     I assume the answer will, in part, be a referral to some developer
>     oriented documentation. [My motivation is personal education rather
>     that creating the next "killer app].

You may want to ask this question in debian-boot (surprisingly, this
list appears to be the place to discuss d-i).

J.
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An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-18 15:50 +0200
  Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-07-18 16:10 +0200
    Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-19 13:40 +0200
      Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2018-07-19 15:40 +0200
        Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-19 16:30 +0200
        Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-20 01:50 +0200
          Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-20 12:40 +0200
      Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-19 17:20 +0200
        Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-07-19 17:50 +0200
          Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-20 14:10 +0200
            Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-20 23:10 +0200
              Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-21 17:50 +0200
        Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/??? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-19 18:40 +0200

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