Amit Saha (droidery(a)gmail.com) said:
>Or worked in as part of the development group; certainly a good
>chunk of what you need should be included there.
By excluding the packages, which I do not want installed is one way
I can think of. This will eliminate the need to specify certain
individual packages, but I might have to explicitly exclude more
packages than I need to explicitly include now.
Also individual "utilities" like 'rlwrap','screen' will still
have
to be there, since they are either included in a group with other
packages which wouldn't necessarily be useful for a default install.
My point is - what usage cases are you trying to hit that require
certain utilities, but don't require other ones?
i.e., you want gcc, but you want to exclude automake/autoconf/etc? This
would be overly limiting, in my opinion.
Similarly, insisting on thunderbird but saying that the other utilities
might be too much seems a little odd to me.
Bill