Re: micro debian

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>:
>  Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> 
> > For ancillary computer uses (e.g. a firewall), having an install option
> > that focuses on a small footprint would be usefull, eg. no man pages,
> 
>  AFAIK small regular debian packages include the man pages and docs and
>  I'm not sure dpkg will be very happy if you delete the files by hand,
>  but it might work.

There's lots of default cron jobs and background daemons running in
modern Gnu/Linux that you'll hear about those in your root mailbox or
log files:

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   Oct 23 19:57:59 heretic gconfd (keeling-11360): Resolved \
        address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" \
        to a read-only configuration source at position 0
   Oct 23 19:57:59 heretic gconfd (keeling-11360): Resolved \
        address "xml:readwrite:/home/keeling/.gconf" to a \
        writable configuration source at position 1 Oct 23 \
        19:57:59 heretic gconfd (keeling-11360): Resolved \
        address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" \
        to a read-only configuration source at position 2
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I've no idea what that means, nor what to do about it.  I have Gnome
but use Blackbox.

Similarly, Cron complains about once a month that links to btdownload*
manpages through /etc/alternatives is a dangling symlink.  No biggie.


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