Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?
On Friday 16 May 2003 01:07 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I agree with Wouter. For me would be an issue having the base system
> > > bigger than it is now. Specially preparing very small "black box" where
> > > i need to save as much space as i can even during the installation
> > > phase.
> >
> > Can't you basically just 'rm -rf /usr/share/doc /usr/share/man' if
> > you're tight on space?
>
> Of course... but also during the installation?
>
> I don't mind at all cleaning up after... but during is a bit of a pain..
>
> more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less than
> 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal
> installation has to be tight.. then rm doc and man and after install the
> minimum sets of pkgs to provide the services.
Please do not try to force this methodology upon the standard Debian base
system. Administrators of embedded systems have many tools to deal with
these problems already, that do not require ever unpacking the full base onto
the target.
- Keegan
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