This seems to me to be worth while and yet be a very simple excercise if
you overlook the fact that we can argue until the cows come home about
what to include and exclude.
1) Build a Debian system as desired. (I built one this week with 30 Mb
/usr and I could do a lot better.)
2) Use dpkg --get-selections > somefile to get a record of what is
installed.
3) Copy the required packages to a suitable area.
4) If necessary, use dpkg --set-selections < somefile to set up dpkg.
5) Test by buiding another box with it.
Maintaining the package partial mirror will need a bit of thought.
Lindsay
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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Alec Clews wrote:
> Sorry - This message is a duplicate
>
> >wanting to do it with a Slackware type install. I have this idea that there
> >could be a subset of Debian packages designed for a single user (home pc)
> >work station. The user could choose this option in dselect and get that type
> >of installation. Then it would be as simple as it is now to upgrade
> >packages. Instead of making a personal Linux distro just create a Debian
> >subset.
>
>
> This sounds like a 'good idea'. It would be nice to extract just the
> packages needed to make a mini Debian that can be squeezed on a CD with
> other stuff (see my email to debian-users about creating a CD for
> Magazines).
>
> Is there enough interest in doing this? I guess we need a mailing list
> and people with enough hard disk space and Debian experience to
> experiment. (I have none of this but I am happy to help anyway I can).
>
> Let's be clever and call it Debian-lite :-).
>
> Please email me if
>
> 1) You are intrested in *using* such a (free) product.
> 2) You can help or have already done some work on this approach.
>
> If this is already a work in progress please let me know.
>
> If there is enough interest I will see about setting up an
> infrastructure.
>
> Regards,
> Alec
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