On Sun 10 Aug 2014 at 18:03:07 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:46:56 -0500 > Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > > What should I be reading to understand: > > 1. what would be minimal set of programs to install? > > It depends how enthusiastic you are. I tend to make a netinstall of > stable (from CD, you don't need the Net until you want to expand the > system). When the task selection page comes up, I untick everything > except the system utilities. That will leave me with a non-X > installation which can be built on. It doesn't contain sudo, which you > may want, and I also install mc, because I like it. Generally I'm > aiming for unstable, so I do a dist-upgrade at this point, where a > minimal amount of time has been wasted in downloading stable packages > which I'm now throwing away. You presumably would take a different path.
Let's look at what Richard could read if he wants to explore this stage of the installation. It's a question of installing the system utilities as opposed to not installing them. First on the reading list is tasksel(8). Then the output of tasksel -t --task-packages standard | less on an existing Wheezy. The displayed list has a few mentions of exim. On my MMI (My Minimal Install) du jour I may or may not want an MTA. Or I may want another one. Note it and pass on. What's this mlocate? More reading. apt-cache show mlocate Maybe even apt-cache rdepends mlocate Mmm. Not today, thank you. bash-completion? Looks useful. Note it down for later installation. less is there. Must have less; cannot do without it. Install later. And so on through the list. Debian provides the documentation; you provide the thinking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/10082014201700.515e53fb3...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
