on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:39:53AM +0100, Chris Kenrick (chriskenrick@yahoo.com.au) wrote:
> >>What's your specific need or goal? There *are* micro-GNU/Linux
> >>distributions out there fitting various goals. Tom's Root/Boot and
> >>the new LNX-BBC project are probably two of the best and best known.
> My goal is to rebuild some servers that are running Woody via Potato.
> The servers are at the moment running lots of unnecessary crud
> (installed on top of base), so I needed to derive a list of base
> packages so I can work out what extra needs installing. Fortunately,
> Karsten's magic command line suggestion should solve it I think.
Note that a better tack might be to identify running services, find out
what other software is installed, try removing it (looking for reducing
size, as this seems to be a concern of yours), and stop if:
- Something you need is removed via dependencies (cancel the action,
you'll be safe).
- Something breaks -- in which case, don't remove that.
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