[plug] P75 & Linux

[Craig Foster]

Is that before or after dselect has decided you need more stuff?

:P

Craig F.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:06 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] P75 & Linux
> 
> 
> > It has to be said, there is little difference between doing 
> this with 
> > debian
> > and doing this with Redhat....
> > If you do a minimal install on either distro 
> > and then add only the packages you need, RedHat would not 
> take any more space 
> > than Debian.
> I don't agree - not unless its changed between RH7.0 and 
> RH7.3. I found 
> debian to have much more "fine-grained" package selection and fewer 
> dependencies defined ("suggests" and even "reccomends" can be 
> left out 
> with debian - not with RH where its either a dep or not). I 
> was able to 
> get a usable debian system in 300MB where RH had taken up 
> over 550MB for 
> the same functionality, and I was pretty new to debian.
> 
> On the other hand perhaps I just missed something about RH.
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
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> 	-- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
> 	while (! broken) { feature ++ ; }
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