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



On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:55:46PM +0000, Joao Clemente wrote:
> Michelle Konzack wrote:
> >Same installation normal is around 16.000 files und with SARGE
> >around 21.000 files. I do not know, what the package maintainers
> >do but I think, some packages can be splited.
> 
> Actually, I have given this some tought some time ago, and I have the 
> feeling that yes, almost every package could be splitted.. I think some 
> years ago I saw some splitting in a rpm distro that had a "foo" package 
> and a "foo-docs" package...
<blasphemy>
Rathat RPM tool has something like a --no-install-doc option.
</blasphemy>

Justin



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