On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:07:38AM -0400, Joshua Wise wrote: > When I went to install the base system, I ran out of room on the > compactflash. This is understandable - after all, it is only 128MB. > I'm not quite certain why we are installing exim or other things like > it by default, however. Exim vs. Postfix vs. Sendmail vs. Qmail vs. > whatever will be a decision made later.
If you don't install an MTA, you don't get at or mailx, and cron won't mail you output. These are considered fundamental enough pieces of a Unix to be in the Debian base system. You can of course swap out exim and replace it with a different MTA later. > Likewise with perl - I will likely not need perl on this system. It's only perl-base, and you can't possibly avoid that on a Debian system. If nothing else, bits of dpkg are written in Perl, as is the thing that asks you questions when configuring packages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
