dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > > | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > | /usr/share be so big? > > This list is things that I don't think you need on this system. If > you intend to have a nice, useful desktop system then they are good to > have but are probably not going to be used on a firewall/gateway > system. It all depends on how the system is going to be used, which > only you know. I also noticed that you have 3 different vi clones > installed -- you probably only need 1. You could probably also remove > a bunch of other libraries, but you'll need to check the dependencies > that apt reports when you try and remove them.
and consider removing some of the stuff that's deinstall'd, as your config files are still around dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall Fairly long list there mike
