I recently tried to do a Debian install, only to find that my CD was to badly scratched to read properly. Because I had a Knoppix disc, I just did a 'knx-hdinstall' and got a working system. However, there is way too much bloat. So far doing 'apt-get remove --purge libqt*' seems to have gotten rid of just about anything KDE related. However, I'm sure there are still packages there that I do not want. So here is the question: is there a way to strip the install to only base/core/required packages? Then I could start building the system up the way I'm used to. The only option I can think of at the moment is creating a list of installed packages on a clean system with 'dpkg --get-selections' and putting it on the other boxen with 'dpkg --set-selections.' However, I don't have any stripped boxen handy. Therefore, does anyone have a stripped boxen they would be willing to send me the --get-selections from (I'd be willing to post it on my site if anyone else goes looking for it), or if someone knows of a better method to strip the machine. Thankee -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Boy Sets Fire - The Power Remains The Same : The Day The Sun Went Out Today is Boomtime, the 48th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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