On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:36:59AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:20:56 +0200 > > Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) needs 460MiB > > > > If you want to trim that down, you should *definitely* use Emdebian > > where the packages themselves have this content already trimmed out. > > Or, for a less drastic solution, use localepurge. Losing the docs is a > significant loss, you don't want to suffer that unless your machine is a > really small dinky gadget. This is a part of the damage Nokia inflicted on > n900 even though it would be a tiny part of that 32GB disk.
Or, we could finally get dpkg to not install files matching some patterns. That would also help those who don't need the 1GB+ from linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbg to use systemtap. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
