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Re: package lists for older machines



On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:30:03PM -0500, J. Tang wrote:
> Should there not be a way for dpkg to ignore packages in certan
> sections?  Using my 486 as an example, I would want it to ignore
> everything in sections sound, X11, games, and doc.  Maybe there should
> be a file /etc/apt/packages.ignore?

Not flexible enough.  see grep-dctrl(1)  This could be used to make
arbitrary rule-based package selections that fit whatever the user
needs (e.g. "don't include packages that exceed Installed-Size N
except for package foo").

Ben
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