On Monday 18 April 2005 23:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:38:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The actual print server related packages total just under 80MB. > > Dragging in 90MB (installed size) worth of X and Gnome when selecting > > a printer task from tasksel for an old 486 or Pentium that was > > supposed to be a lightweight server, is broken in my book. > > Is the print server task documented as being a "lightweight server"? /me was exaggerating somewhat in that statement > I thought it pulled in CUPS. CUPS is a bloated cow; the size of the > queue databases it created on my /var when there were *no* print jobs > in the queue is obscene -- IIRC, they take up as much space as the > X/GNOME stuff you mention, and it was very irritating to find that my > /var partition wasn't big enough to accomodate this. Al the more reason to be very, very careful on how you waste the often very limited space on older harddisks ;-) However, the current size of CUPS related stuff in /var on my laptop is only about 250 kB. (Granted, I don't print much.)
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