On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:11:42PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:33:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:40:12PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > > i am wondering if anyone has found or created a > > > terminal only version of debian (similar to the slax > > > frodo) or if such a thing could be installed from the > > > net install. let's just say that it is for special > > > purposes though i would like to have things like lynx, > > > finch, ircii, mpc, and so forth > > > > What you describe here is possible as others pointed out. Just avoid > > desktop install and stay with small base system with vim, mc, ... > > > > But what the title of mail say "no x", that is difficult. There will be > > some X client libraries: libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxext6, libxmu6, > > libxpm4, libxt6 which are small and OK to have. The manpages (man-db) > > require groff and groff require these. > > Why is that?
Because it is small memory foot print which groff maintaner thought OK. See groff(1) under -X option. Thos command serves as X client thus required X library. If you create patch to dynamically load library if it exists, this dependency may be remeved. But currently, iy is not the case as I see it, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
