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Re: why is sarge "minimal" intall so huge compared to woody?



Joao Clemente wrote:
> I got used to deploy woody servers by doing a net install and not 
> selecting any kind of task (in the menu where one chooses "desktop", 
> "web server", "file server", "development", blabla, I would let 
> everything blank). I would then just apt-get what I wanted (samba, or 
> dhcpd, or...)
> 
> This is what I'm refering as "minimal install". In woody I would have a 
> minimal install around 100MB or so (I would have about 70-80MB in /usr).
> Same thing in sarge will get me about 300MB in /usr only.. I see I get 
> things like gcc right "out-of-the-box", that are increasing this 
> "minimal install" size... Was there a reason for this increase of 
> packages in the minimal install or it just happened to stay this way 
> because ? Anyone knows?

All packages of standard priority are supposed to be installed as part
of the default install unless the user acts to not install them. A bug
in woody prevented this from happening. It's been fixed in sarge.

-- 
see shy jo

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