debian? lean but fat quickly

[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, 16 May 2003 09:43:21 -0600
"Dr. Jones" <drjones at vii.com> wrote:

> CM:
> 
> I am a firm debian convert as well, but I am miffed at how quickly it
> grows fat. You have to be ever vigilent about such rapid expansion.
> 
> I am still trying to discover the mysteries of dselect and aptitude in
> paring away the unused applications and libraries that take up so much
> space.

dselect is simple and handles all the dependencies for you.  I don?t use
aptitude, I use apt-get directly.  It?s really simple.  And when things
come unglued (As they will in unstable from time to time), dpkg using
some of the --force-<whatever> options will usually fix it.

> 
> Have you used either of those utilities? I know I need to get a new
> mega giga oodles of space hard drive, but would hope I could get
> things running like I want, with minimal space requirements. Any
> others with tips on this, I appreciate your sharing.

Yeah, they do install a bunch of unnecessary crap, but you can try to
uninstall anything (and if it has dependencies, you?ll hear about it).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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