On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
This seems to me to be worth while and yet be a very simple excercise if
you overlook the fact that we can argue until the cows come home about
what to include and exclude.
1) Build a Debian system as desired. (I built one this week with 30 Mb
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wanting to do it with a Slackware type install. I have this idea that there
could be a subset of Debian packages designed for a single user (home pc)
work station. The user could choose this option in dselect and get that type
of installation. Then it would
Maybe It could have some restrain choices as with/without Xfree,
latex...
- wanting to do it with a Slackware type install. I have this idea that there
- could be a subset of Debian packages designed for a single user (home pc)
- work station. The user could choose this option in
This seems to me to be worth while and yet be a very simple excercise if
you overlook the fact that we can argue until the cows come home about
what to include and exclude.
1) Build a Debian system as desired. (I built one this week with 30 Mb
/usr and I could do a lot better.)
2) Use
Alec Clews writes:
If this is already a work in progress please let me know.
You might want to look at the seul project (http://www.seul.org/). They
are right now choosing between rpm and dpkg. They seem to be heading in
the direction of a totally new distribution which IMHO is a poor idea.
Well, I have an application for a subset of debian. It would be a great
learning opportunity for me to learn more about building Debian packages,
etc. One of the things I need to do for it is configure it with some
changes to the default smail config.
One of the beauties on using Debian for
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