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Re: What Are the CORE parts of Debian?



On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:23:34PM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote:
> What exactly are the core, absolute minimum parts of Debian that would need 
> to sit on a CD in order to boot and install it to the minimal point that one 
> could then apt-get all the additional packages he/she wanted in the future?  
> Networking not even necessarilly required yet.

Basically, packages flagged as "Essential: yes" and their dependencies,
plus apt.

See the lists of required and base packages at the top of
/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody in the debootstrap package. You
should only need apt from the base list.

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


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