On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less > > > than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal > > > installation has to be tight.. then rm doc and man and after install > > > the minimum sets of pkgs to provide the services. > > > > Please do not try to force this methodology upon the standard Debian base > > system. Administrators of embedded systems have many tools to deal with > > these problems already, that do not require ever unpacking the full base > > onto the target. > > sorry but i can hardly read from the previous post that i am trying to > force something to someone. I guess this is just a misunderstanding.
Perhaps the word 'force' was a bit harsh, but it's essentially how it works for an end-user. It seemed to me that you were suggesting that the standard installer should be optimized for embedded systems, which does not sound like a very good idea. These systems have many specialized needs which cannot be easily accounted for. - Keegan
