Re: package lists for older machines
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:30:03PM -0500, J. Tang wrote:
> > 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?
Unfortunately, sections are not as useful as we would like, with so many
packages in the distribution. For example, though you might not have a
sound card, you might still use the system for batch jobs such as audio
encoding.
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- mdz
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