Re: My experience with debian

["Christer Solskogen" <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu>]

>> So I have a suggestion. Make a virtualpackage that contains the absolut
>> minimum of packages that is needed to get a running Linux system.
>
>   That is not necessary.
>

ahhh, of course. I havent tought about that. sorry ;-)
The reason i put this up was becuse i ran deborphan and it showed
base-files. That is not a good thing. But maybe i should talk to the
maintainer of that package instead.

>   As for a miminal base meta-package, you'd be welcome to create one
>  but it would likely be different for everybody.  I install a
>  'steve-base' package on all my machines, which is used to just pull
>  in some packages I always use such as screen, less, bzip2, etc.  That
>  is simple enough to create but I think that having a distro wide
>  would be unlikely.  (Perhaps role-webserver, role-nameserver, or
>  something would be simple enough.  But the general case would be
>  harder).


You are probably right here too. Thanks for your replay.

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