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

2018-07-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/20/2018 04:06 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 20 Jul 2018 at 07:07:34 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] GREP-DCTRL(1) says in part, "Use your imagination! The building blocks are there ..." I believe it ;/ I suspect piping its output to tbl-dctrl will be interesting to say the least.

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

2018-07-20 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Jul 2018 at 07:07:34 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/19/2018 10:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, David Wright wrote: > >>While there are commands like aptitude search and aptitude why > >>available for such purposes, these are really designed

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

2018-07-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/19/2018 10:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, David Wright wrote: While there are commands like aptitude search and aptitude why available for such purposes, these are really designed for routine maintenance. For your purposes, I think you need to develop

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

2018-07-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/19/2018 06:41 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 19 Jul 2018 at 15:34:04 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: [snip] You may want to ask this question in debian-boot (surprisingly, this list appears to be the place to discuss d-i). Can it be answered here? The base system. (The OP is familiar with

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

2018-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2018 at 15:34:04 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Richard Owlett: > > > > That leads to asking two related questions: [...] > > 2. What section of the installer installs packages tagged as required? > > I assume the answer will, in part, be a referral to some developer > >

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

2018-07-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/19/2018 10:13 AM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 19 Jul 2018 at 06:38:08 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/18/2018 09:06 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: First I'm looking comparison of required, important, standard, optional, and

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

2018-07-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, David Wright wrote: > While there are commands like aptitude search and aptitude why > available for such purposes, these are really designed for routine > maintenance. For your purposes, I think you need to develop a more > intimate relationship with the files in

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

2018-07-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Jul 2018 at 06:38:08 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/18/2018 09:06 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>First I'm looking comparison of required, important, standard, > >>optional, and extra as package labels [particularly

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

2018-07-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/19/2018 08:34 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: 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)' Exactly what I

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

2018-07-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
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)'

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

2018-07-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/18/2018 09:06 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: First I'm looking comparison of required, important, standard, optional, and extra as package labels [particularly interested in corner cases]. I've been looking at

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

2018-07-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: First I'm looking comparison of required, important, standard, optional, and extra as package labels [particularly interested in corner cases]. I've been looking at [https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/]. I'm not grasping

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

2018-07-18 Thread Richard Owlett
"Topology" may be a poor word choice. First I'm looking comparison of required, important, standard, optional, and extra as package labels [particularly interested in corner cases]. I've been looking at [https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/]. I'm not grasping something. Not sure what ;/