Quoting Neil Williams (2013-10-25 19:50:14) > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:29:47 +0100 > Dan Hawker <danhawker@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> device is) and quicker because I presumed grip would not have the >> same level of extraneous guff installed by default, rather than that >> grip > > Whatever you can achieve in terms of fewer packages installed by using > Grip can also be achieved identically in Debian by careful use of > --no-install-recommends and careful selection of Priority: important > packages. None of the dependency chains are modified in Grip. Grip > does unset the Essential: yes flag which can help with very small > installs but those would not involve an X environment. Since you seem ok with NFS, you can get an even smaller runtime footprint by moving stuff used only "in admin mode" to NFS. I have in the past used flashybrid for that and (with a 2.4 kernel) succesfully maintained a apt-get update-able system on 128MB USB sticks. Code is here (essentials are the flashybrid lists in defaults.cfg): http://source.jones.dk/?p=fleshybrid.git git://source.jones.dk/fleshybrid - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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