Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:36:59AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:20:56 +0200
> > Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) needs 460MiB
> >
> > If you want to trim that down, you should *definitely* use Emdebian
> > where the packages themselves have this content already trimmed out.
>
> Or, for a less drastic solution, use localepurge. Losing the docs is a
> significant loss, you don't want to suffer that unless your machine is a
> really small dinky gadget. This is a part of the damage Nokia inflicted on
> n900 even though it would be a tiny part of that 32GB disk.
Or, we could finally get dpkg to not install files matching some
patterns. That would also help those who don't need the 1GB+ from
linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbg to use systemtap.
Mike
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