on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Colin Watson (cjwatson@flatline.org.uk) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz > >(somiaJ@excite.com) wrote: > >> > >> First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I > >> understand your issues of wanting to save banwith, also after > >> thinking about your meathod of using the .list file to direct what > >> pacakages will be installed on the machince, I see that for a > >> knowledgable Debian user it could be advantage to spelizise that > >> list to get the maximum performace out of your operating system > >> which is the final goal of most devout users in my opion, but now > >> on to my problems > > > >Huh? > > I guess Jaimos is thinking that it's worth cutting down the .list > files to only the packages you need. In fact, unless you're short on > CDs, it's not worth the trouble: regardless of what you have on the > CDs, you only ever have to install the packages you want, plus their > dependencies. The .list files don't control what's actually installed > on the final system. .list files being something specific to the p-Image method? As I said before, I haven't tried it myself, just mostly heard from those who've found it broken. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org
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