Marc, > While I can't answer your question, I'd like to point you towards apt > which is perfect for installing minimal systems. When I pull up a new > bastion host, I install the base system and abort dselect. > > When I feel that I need something (like ipchains, for example), I > simply do apt-get install ipchains and apt will automagically pull in > any packages ipchains needs.
I see your point but if like me you are not familier with all the packages then dselect is excellent to be able to browse what is installed and easily add and remove packages while seeing the impact that will have on other packages. Having recently tried Caldera OpenLInux 2.2 and Redhat 6 I have come back joyfully to dselect. Nothing else just lets me see what is installed (and how important it is to have different items installed). I really hope that we do not lose the functionality of dselect for character mode as I don't put X on our servers. Of course I use apt as the access method for dselect which again is something excellent I could not find elsewhere. Regards Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
