On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:22:08PM +0200, Andrei D. Caraman wrote:
> Is it a reasonable expectation to find TeX installed on a
> router? What about emacs on the same routing machine (which
> only has 140M of harddisk space?
What about the following? I wouldn't expect you to need any of these
on a router either:
procmail
gcc, g++, cpp
gdb
libc6-dev
flex, bison
mtools
manpages-dev
dpkg-dev
debian-policy
bin86
ispell, iamerican, wenglish, ibritish
gpm
There's probably a whole bunch of documentation you could do without too.
But so what? `Standard' doesn't mean `Exactly right for every situation
you might ever encounter', nor does it mean `You have to have all this
installed or the thought police will come around and smack you'. It means
`Has a little of everything, and enough to get everyone started'. It means
`*Everything* you'd expect to find on a (not-particularly customised)
GNU/Linux system'.
`It's too hard to press `_' in dselect' and `But typing "apt-get remove
<foo>" hurts my fingers' isn't a particularly convincing argument,
however.
Cheers,
aj
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