Skeletal packaging?

Hi folks, This is something that's bugged me for a while and I'm sure there must be a way to do it... Basically, there are lots of cases where I remove packages that other packages depend on when I replace them with an alternative I have compiled myself. One example of this is qmail. I removed

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

Modem: Go with external. You can rest assured they are not WinModems and will work under Linux. My USRobotics 56k external modem worked great up until I got DSL. :) Sound Card: I've only used a Creative AWE64 Gold card. It has worked almost flawlessly using the Sound Blaster driver.

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

Brendan O'Connor wrote: I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at all. SNIP # The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname progeny

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