netinstall 9.10 Karmic Koala 125 extra packages including openoffice.org
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| tasksel (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: tasksel
Using the netinstall from the 9.10 Karmic Koala beta the task selection section of the installer pulls in 125 extra packages. During installation if one selects a basic server install 146 packages will be installed (as of 10-Oct-2009). Immediately after the 146 packages are downloaded and configured the installer downloads and configures an additional 125 packages without warning. These packages include openoffice.org and OpenJDK.
I do not know what is causing these 125 packages to be installed. Remember, this is a server install with no other tasks selected. They are flagged with an 'A' in aptitude after installation. This indicates that they were installed to satisfy a dependency. The extra packages can be somewhat removed by running 'apt-get autoremove libxext6' and then 'apt-get install libxext6', but this leaves broken dependencies in several places.
If anyone has any tips for how I can determine which specific package depends on these 125 please post that info in this report. I could only trace it back to being somewhat related to libxext6 through trial and error. Thanks.
