On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:53:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > | Users who are installing Debian onto smaller systems and who only > | require the only a basic system will be pleasently suprised to find that > | the base system is now smaller than in the previous release of Debian > | GNU/Linux. > > Did someone actually check this? I just said it *might* be so. i seriously doubt this is the case, potato's base lacked man-db, an MTA among other things, woody now has those (and i question why the base needs an MTA, other then broken lilo dependencies) also note a tarball of all the base .deb files is about 20MB, i have not tried making a filesystem tarball to compare sizes that way. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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