On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:32:12AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: >>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: >>>On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote: >>>> Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system? >>>No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous >>>number of packages installed (because Debian makes it cheap to >>>experiment and I don't get too worked up about removing the ones I >>>don't use often), and the total size of my system (excluding /home, >>>but including /usr/src and all of the kernel tarballs extracted in >>>there) is 5.2 GB. >>>That's roughly 5% of the size of a hard drive that I can buy for $60 >>>at the local office supply store, or $3 worth of space. Even if I >>>could cut that in half, I'd be saving about $1.50 worth of space at a >>>cost of hundreds of dollars of time. >>>I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB >>>Connor in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying >>>about it. >>But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk >>space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need? >>Why fight broken upgrades on things? >What I usually do is that when I look over the packages that are going >to be upgraded (I use the ncurses interface to aptitude) I either >remove packages I no longer need or mark those I am not sure about as >auto. I make use of debfoster to keep my system "clean". /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org http://magnus.therning.org/ Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. (If you can read this you are to highly educated.)
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