Re: Why so big?
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
| On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
| > Hi all,
| >
| > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34
| > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then
| > install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB.
| >
| > Is there a small Debian setup I missed?
|
| <disclaimer="my opinion">
| If you want a "small setup" you shouldn't choose any task package at
| all ... do the base install, install what you need (and possibly
| uninstall what you don't; base still has a bit of "cruft"). Voila.
| </disclaimer>
I agree with this. I had a gateway system setup on which I manually
picked the packages and it only used ~120MB. I'm sure several of that
were used by /var/cache/apt/archives -- whenever you 'apt-get upgrade'
a copy of the .deb file is cached in that directory.
HTH,
-D
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