Bug#257099: debian-installer: report
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:07:38AM -0400, Joshua Wise wrote:
> When I went to install the base system, I ran out of room on the
> compactflash. This is understandable - after all, it is only 128MB.
> I'm not quite certain why we are installing exim or other things like
> it by default, however. Exim vs. Postfix vs. Sendmail vs. Qmail vs.
> whatever will be a decision made later.
If you don't install an MTA, you don't get at or mailx, and cron won't
mail you output. These are considered fundamental enough pieces of a
Unix to be in the Debian base system. You can of course swap out exim
and replace it with a different MTA later.
> Likewise with perl - I will likely not need perl on this system.
It's only perl-base, and you can't possibly avoid that on a Debian
system. If nothing else, bits of dpkg are written in Perl, as is the
thing that asks you questions when configuring packages.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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