Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-04-24 19:36:29) > I'm attempting a very minimal install because: > 1. small size in and of itself is a good goal > 2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared > to having everything handed to you on a "golden platter" {Debian's > default installer} > > My current experiments revolve around defining my personal take on a > minimal MATE desktop. Part of the motivation is that some recommended > packages clash with ones I wish to use. Just removing offending packages > after the fact is unaesthetic. > > My test machine has both a default install from DVD 1 and my minimalist > install. I had done a standard install without specifying any GUI or > extra packages. > > My base setup was installed by doing > apt-get --no-install-recommends install task-mate-desktop > apt-get install pluma gparted synaptic
I share your interest in installing minimal systems without the deroute of first installing too much and then removing unwanted parts. I understand from your subject that you deliberately chose to explore first creating a broken system and then attempt to unbreak it. For the record, there's another (at least to me) more sensible approach of explicitly skipping packages you don't want - e.g. like this: apt-get install task-mate-desktop libreoffice- libreoffice-gtk3- Personally I use aptitude in fullscreen mode (i.e. run "aptitude" with no non-option arguments) to explore package relations (dependencies, recommendations, suggests, and enancements) interactively. When I then have a set of explicit package selections possibly with explicit recommendation suppressions, I save those as classes for the tool "boxer" for reuse across many different larger system compositions. If anyone is interested in collaborating on that approach, I welcome you to join the Debian Tinker project: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker > All it lacks is internet connectivity. Unless you examined _every_ ignored recommendation and confirmed that indeed you did not need it, you must mean "...known so far"! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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