On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > mick crane wrote: > > have a look in /usr/bin ? > > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : > https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard > > /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. > /sbin is its add-on for system administrators. > /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on my system. > > > Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > > no trick to be honest > > But are you aware that "standard utility" can be the start of a nice > dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ? > (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.)
$ aptitude search '?priority(required)' will get you a list of the packages installed that absolutely have to be installed. Remember the discussion about why Debian doesn't have a default firewall policy, because everyone needs something different? Same thing applies here: this is the minimal core that gets you a working system. Two things should pop out immediately: 1. Some packages have alternatives, where any of the alternatives will work but you do have to have one of them. 2. There's no boot loader. A boot loader is optional because it might be supplied by an outside system, like a VM hypervisor. -dsr-
