Re: Why so big(2)
* dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
>
> | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can
> | /usr/share be so big?
>
> Actually you have a lot of stuff installed that you don't need if the
> machine is only going to be a samba server and/or gateway/firewall.
> Also remember that all documentation goes in /usr/share as well.
[long list snipped]
> This list is things that I don't think you need on this system. If
> you intend to have a nice, useful desktop system then they are good to
> have but are probably not going to be used on a firewall/gateway
> system. It all depends on how the system is going to be used, which
> only you know. I also noticed that you have 3 different vi clones
> installed -- you probably only need 1. You could probably also remove
> a bunch of other libraries, but you'll need to check the dependencies
> that apt reports when you try and remove them.
A good way to semi-automate cleaning up unneeded libraries is with orphaner,
the frontend for deborphan.
Bruce.
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