On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 16:14 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > The list posted there is the full sorted list of *all* packages, as > > applied to the full set of CDs. The last one on CD#1 is > > gnome-packagekit-data, as I said, and I don't see any debug packages > > above that in the list. > > Ups, I did the wrong check. > > Anyway, some remarks: > - aptitude: can be downgraded from standard > - gcc-4.[56]-base > - python2.6: 2.7 is already there > - loop-aes-utils: loop-aes is not supported > - grub-legacy > - build-essential, linux-kbuild-3.2, kernel-package: development stuff > - module-assistant: deprecated for dkms > - localepurge > - pump > > This is all before X.
I agree with all the above. More stuff unlikely to be needed on a desktop: - ftp, telnet: mostly redundant with wget and nc, unless you really like cleartext authentication - tcpd: server - procmail: server - module-init-tools: transitional package - pcmciautils: PCMCIA is dead - jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, ufsutils: obscure - openssh-server: server, not desktop - sharutils: obscure; we've had MIME for 20 years - fakeroot, autopoint: more development - deborphan, debfoster: obscure - mtools: obscure; FAT volumes are auto-mounted - twm: no-one should have to suffer this - discover, mdetect: I think these are pretty much obsolete, but could be wrong - linux-sound-base, alsa-base, alsa-utils: rarely needed AFAIK Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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