On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:22:08PM +0200, Andrei D. Caraman wrote: > Is it a reasonable expectation to find TeX installed on a > router? What about emacs on the same routing machine (which > only has 140M of harddisk space? What about the following? I wouldn't expect you to need any of these on a router either: procmail gcc, g++, cpp gdb libc6-dev flex, bison mtools manpages-dev dpkg-dev debian-policy bin86 ispell, iamerican, wenglish, ibritish gpm There's probably a whole bunch of documentation you could do without too. But so what? `Standard' doesn't mean `Exactly right for every situation you might ever encounter', nor does it mean `You have to have all this installed or the thought police will come around and smack you'. It means `Has a little of everything, and enough to get everyone started'. It means `*Everything* you'd expect to find on a (not-particularly customised) GNU/Linux system'. `It's too hard to press `_' in dselect' and `But typing "apt-get remove <foo>" hurts my fingers' isn't a particularly convincing argument, however. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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