On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:53:16PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Aug-04, 16:22 (CDT), Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > > Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > > split main to the sections inside it, in a way to have separated > > > package files for each section, so I can choose which sections I > > > don't want at all, like kde and gnome, and maybe even games, or sound > > > > Also, if you run up the numbers you will see that there are almost no > > reasonable combinations of sections to leave out on anything but highly > > specialized systems that will give you a space saving of say at least > > 25%. > > Actually, I'd been thinking about this, and I'd guess that any machine > that has problems with the large Packages file *probably* is not running > X. My thought was to generate a Packages.small that removed xlibs and > *everything* that depended on it, no matter what section. I've not run > the numbers to see if that is a substantial reduction, though. Its not xlibs anymore, but libx11-6. And: pryzbyj@andromeda:~$ apt-cache rdepends libx11-6 |wc -l 1910 Out of a total 15470. Justin
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