Just lately I've been configuring some data collection on a number of machines 
(all Debian). All of these scripts do nothing more than "collect some data, use 
rrdtool ... --daemon ..." to send it to a central point where it's stored and 
graphed. None of these remote machines do any storage or graphing themselves.

I was wondering (before I go and put a feature request in the Debian bug 
tracker) how hard it would be to make a package which omitted all the storage, 
consolidation, and graphing code - and hence dropped the dependencies on the 
font and graphing tools/libraries ?
I assume it would be easier if the upstream source includes a config/compile 
time option for it ?


As a side effect, a couple of the machine I would like to add it to are running 
older versions (as far back as Lenny). I assume I might stand a slight chance 
of manually installing later packages if there were less dependencies.


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