Re: Reducing apt's memory footprint (on small boxes)
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 9:22 PM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM Paul Wise wrote:
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> > I think that this could be useful to a subset of Debian users,
> > possibly including embedded hardware and low-RAM cloud/VPS users.
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> This could also be useful to bandwidth-constrained environments, the
> apt package indices are really quite large these days.
+1.
And devices with limited storage. Two days ago I had to install Debian
10 on a fresh SDcard and swap-in the card on an IoT gadget. The dist
upgrade used too much space and the existing SDcard ran out of space
when unpacking/installing a Perl package.
Jeff
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