Differences between installs (was: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?])

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I'm of the opinion we're all running different machines with
>> different sets of software, and this explains that (could be wrong,
>> though).
> I was just -so- sure we all had the exact same installs.

All joking aside: I've been maintaining about 4-5 Debian machines, all
using Debian testing and basically all obtained by cloning and updating
between them, hence all deriving from my "root" install performed some
time around 2003 (onto a Thinkpad X30 which I still use, still using
that same Debian testing).

While most "apt upgrade" are somewhat similar among those machines, I'm
surprised at how often I notice significant differences.


        Stefan