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Re: Why so big?



On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
> 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?

dselect is probably installing all the packages in 'standard', e.g.
tetex and emacs, as it does by default the first time you run it.
Uninstall those when it tries to install them and you won't have so much
cruft.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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