Bug#48872: Unnecessary packages in basedisks
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.1
Severity: normal
Hi,
The basedisk image is already bloated enough at ~15MB. I believe that
the follwing 2 packages should be removed from scripts/basedisks/PACKAGES_all
libdb2
libstdc++2.9
Nothing in the base disks depends on them (at least on my i386 system
- dunno about other archs) therefore they can safely be removed.
Thanks
Greg
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux tigers 2.2.13 #1 Tue Nov 2 02:08:50 EST 1999 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii ash 0.3.5-8 NetBSD /bin/sh
ii bison 1.28-3 A parser generator that is compatible with Y
ii debiandoc-sgml 1.1.33 DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools
ii gettext 0.10.35-11.0.0 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libgd1g-dev 1.6.1-1.1 GD Graphics Library (development version).
ii libnewt-dev 0.50-4.1 Developer's toolkit for newt windowing libra
ii libpaperg 1.0.3-12.2 Library for handling paper characteristics [
ii libpopt-dev 1.3-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters - develop
ii libwww-perl 5.46-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii lynx 2.8.2-3 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii m4 1.4-10 a macro processing language
ii make 3.78.1-1 The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii makedev 2.3.1-28 Creates special device files in /dev.
ii man-db 2.3.10-69s Display the on-line manual.
ii pointerize 0.3 Internationalization utilities, based on get
ii recode 3.5-1 Character set conversion utility.
ii slang1-pic 1.3.9-1 The S-Lang programming library, shared libra
ii slice 1.3.4-2 Extract out pre-defined slices of an ASCII f
ii tetex-bin 1.0.6-1 teTeX binary files
ii tetex-extra 1.0-5 extra teTeX library files
ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.3-4 compression library - development
ii libc6-pic 2.1.2-8 GNU C Library: PIC archive library
^^^ (Provides virtual package glibc-pic)
ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)
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