Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > sorry but i can hardly read from the previous post that i am trying to
> > force something to someone. I guess this is just a misunderstanding.
>
> Perhaps the word 'force' was a bit harsh, but it's essentially how it works
> for an end-user. It seemed to me that you were suggesting that the standard
> installer should be optimized for embedded systems, which does not sound like
> a very good idea. These systems have many specialized needs which cannot be
> easily accounted for.
No i was not suggesting either. I was just explaining why i would like to
avoid to get a bigger base system and giving out one of the reason. it was
an example, no more no less. anyway no big deal ;)
Fabio
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