On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:16:00 +0100, David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:50:29AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >> In the rush for cutting away small bits of minbase, it looks like we forgot >> a big pile of junk: /usr/share/doc/ > >Honestly, on space constraint systems, isn't the whole /usr/share/doc >directory "junk". Probably not the solution for everyone or as >a default, but I want to highlight that dpkg supports excluding files >and entire paths from being unpacked: > >$ cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/01_exclude_paths >| path-exclude /usr/share/doc/* >| path-include /usr/share/doc/*/copyright >| >| path-exclude /usr/share/locale/* >| path-include /usr/share/locale/en* >| path-exclude /usr/share/man/* >| …
Is there any canonical way to have a new system/chroot installed that way? Debootstrap seems to make things particularly hard without using internal interfaces (#811269, #864981, #871255, the oldest of those having had its fourth birthday recently, with only a single less-than-helpful maintainer interaction since then). How would I do that from the very beginning? >Sure, all these files are handy to have on a "normal" system, but that >is the point: If I want to look at them, I want to do that 99,9% of the >time on a normal system, not on a single-purpose minbase(based) one – >where I don't even have a sane editor available (SCNR). Amen. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
