Re: Checking for services to be restarted on a default Debian installation

[Wadih Maalouf <wadih@creationmw.com>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03 2014, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 01:41:05PM -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> > > This package is "Priority: optional", and therefore not installed by
> > > default.  What about just making it "important" or "required"?
> >
> > On my system it pulled in more than 20MB of dependencies. That's a lot
> > to push onto every debian system.
>
> Is 20MB really a lot?  That seems like essentially nothing to me
> nowadays.  I'm in the middle of a 2.2GB upgrade right now.
>
> jamie.
I just installed alpine as my plain text email client and that fits in 
less than 8MB of dependencies altogether.

The checkrestart utility weighing 20MB can probably be fixed.