On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 01:24:48PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > But i am not sure whether the official classification in > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities > of the first three priorities really matches the idea of a set of > "standard [system] utilities": > > "standard > These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited > character-mode system." > > I.e. no X Window System: > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/x/xorg/control-1%3A7.7%2B19
I would not consider X[1] to be "standard" on anything other than a desktop workstation. I certainly don't install it on the vast majority of the machines I manage. > No command line CD/DVD/BD burning: > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/c/cdrkit/control-9%3A1.1.11-3 > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/dvd%2Brw-tools/control-7.1-12 > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libi/libisoburn/control-1.4.8-3 Sounds pretty far from "standard" to me. Bordering on "esoteric", even. Again, CD/DVD/BD burning at all is generally only applicable to end-user systems[2] and, given that X is usually installed on such systems, I would expect GUI burners to be used much more widely than CLI programs. [1] Specifically, an X server. X client applications are often useful on non-desktop systems. [2] And, I would suspect, a rather small subset of end-user systems, at that. I only know one person who burns optical media these days, and that's to back up large numbers of photos whenever her hard drive fills up. -- Dave Sherohman
