Re: why is sarge "minimal" intall so huge compared to woody?

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

Joao Clemente wrote:
> The results are:
> woody: 152 MB, 105 packages installed (100 packages selected)
> sarge: 372 MB, 231 packages installed (226 packages selected)
>
> I got these results by using "df", "dpkg -l | wc -l" and "dpkg 
> --get-selections | wc -l", respectively
>
> As one can see, sarge minimal install is almost 2.5x bigger than woody
>
> Repeting what I said on my 1rst post, I wonder why such a big minimal 
> install ...
> As a curiosity, /usr of sarge takes 223 MB and in woody takes 50 MB!

You might find 'filelight' useful for seeing where all the space has 
gone on the Sarge machine. Also dpigs to list the largest installed 
packages.

> Bye for now
> Joao

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