Re: A question for the list:

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 03:05:43 -0600, Boyd wrote in message 
<[🔎] 201011080305.48486.bss@iguanasuicide.net>:

> In <[🔎] 20101108050349.1bf5c129@a45.fmb.no>, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> >On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:25:53 -0600, Boyd wrote in message
> ><[🔎] 201011071826.00774.bss@iguanasuicide.net>:
> >> (Really, some required parts of Debian are simply missing from
> >> experimental, so it isn't possible to install *just* experimental.)
> >
> >..well, we do have the 2.6.36 kernel in place in "Experimental",
> >and X and the radeon driver... what else do we need to fly? ;o)
> 
> dpkg.  libc.  Assuming you want to use apt: apt and perl.  binutils.  
> fileutils.  Assuming you want network: ifupdown.

..I troll you ifconfig, dd and netcat. ;o)

> (aptitude search '~E') should give you a list of "essential"

..define "essential", in our Experimental context. ;o)

> packages. A rare few can be uninstalled in favor of something that
> satisfies a virtual package.

..aye.  Debian is all about stability, not about fancy kinky
experimental troll cuisine. ;o)

-- 
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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