On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:11:26PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Hi Brian,
Hi David,
> My firewall machine has 211 packages, which includes perl,
> python, gcc, apache, etc, etc.
Yikes! gcc and perl on a firewall?
> Undoubtedly both machines could be trimmed
> down ...
Undoubtedly. :-)
> Given your 106 packages vs. the 1763 of the distribution you're at the
> 15-16% installed level.
Try your math again: 106/1763 = 6%.
> Obviously you're ahead of me on the project! That's the way it should
> be. Another tool comes to mind - RPMFIND which has the ability to find
> package updates and resolve dependencies. It might be a solution for you.
Yeah, but again, this is something that NEEDS to be in the distro, not
just on my systems. Everytime I need to write something that I get
with another distro, I need to re-evaluate my reasons for using it.
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
