Re: package lists for older machines
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:21:58 -0500
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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> Since small systems like these can be used for a wide variety of
> tasks (print service, firewalling, dialup/terminal services,
> scientific data collection), you would want to have all of those
> packages at your fingertips. The only way to achieve that is to have
> a large package database on the system.
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?
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Jason Tang / tang@jtang.org / http://www.jtang.org/~tang
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