Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:09:10 + (UTC), Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- adduser is 48k of "unreadable perl mess" As former maintainer of adduser, I take offense here. Adduser has improved a lot in readability in the last three years. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

* Neil Williams: >> Yea, devices don't, software packages do... > > Nah, we get around that too. > > (cdebconf for one) I must take a look, thanks. Current debconf (depends on perl, not only perl-base, sigh) is ..., you know. > Then use busybox to replace adduser. Tell it to package maintainers

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:09:10 + (UTC) Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Embedded devices don't need perl or ruby or python or > > Yea, devices don't, software packages do... Nah, we get around that too. (cdebconf for one) > Well, with "pkg perl-base; keep 'really' nothing;" st

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

* Neil Williams: > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:08:10 + (UTC) > Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How that can be, without perl? I don't like perl, but it's a must for >> Debian. > > It ain't necessarily so. > ;-) > > Embedded devices don't need perl or ruby or python or Yea, devices

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:08:10 + (UTC) Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The alternative approach is to modify the packages themselves, > > rather than remove files after installation. See Emdebian: > > http://www.emdebian.org/ > > Well, after download, before installation and using ge

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

> The alternative approach is to modify the packages themselves, rather > than remove files after installation. See Emdebian: > http://www.emdebian.org/ Well, after download, before installation and using general purpose archive. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2007/05/msg00025.html > h

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:54:05 + (UTC) Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo. > > Finally i've came up with a new solution, shared in dpkg-general [0]. > It's only for those, who cares about having less bloated (yet functional) > rootfs. More ideas (and probably testing) is welcome. >

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

Hallo. Finally i've came up with a new solution, shared in dpkg-general [0]. It's only for those, who cares about having less bloated (yet functional) rootfs. More ideas (and probably testing) is welcome. [0] Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ... (cleaL10n))

It was good to have ability to make simple dpkg-deb wrapper [0] (for clean locales script). Moving further, it must be noted, that current way dpkg uses dpkg-deb isn't optimal for any kind of pre-cleanup, such as: - removing locales, mans; - striping scripts (comments: they're already in the sourc