Ok the bigger problem you should have is "what is a base system" You could run in another box a installation and get a list of the basic system packages, but what do you want the box for? give us a user case and we would try to sort this mess out for you.
Definitely purging X is a must -- that will take down about 90% of the "flavour" packages and none of the essential stuff, could you not start there ? Do you need SQL ? Mail ? Apache ... etc ... A use case would be great ... or is this a experiment? Rogerio 2010/3/19 Greg Madden <gomadtr...@acsalaska.net> > On Friday 19 March 2010 01:09:20 pm Mike Viau wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:40 +0100 > > > From: iod...@runbox.no > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system > > > > > > Mike Viau wrote: > > > > In essence I would like to revert my system back to a freshly > > > > installed state, without reinstalling. Ultimatly is this possible? > > > > > > -snip- > > > > > > > I was hoping to find a solution for a currently running Debian system > > > > rather then to create a bare bone baseline or image... > > > > > > Wouldn't the easiest way be to backup all important data and > > > reinstall? That _should_ give the same end result. But if that > > > isn't a viable option for you, please explain why. Is this perhaps > > > a remote server that you can't get your hands on, I can see how > > > that would be a problem. > > > > > > -- > > > Odd > > > > I do have physical access to the box, but it does not have an optical > drive > > to make re-installation painless. I temporarily borrowed a USB drive that > > is not with me anymore. The hardware is very recent and last time I tried > > to used the net install disk the e1000e driver I was unable to detect my > > network card and the Debian setup insisted that I was to use Ethernet > over > > Firewire. > > Would be nice to have a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used > aptitude > (dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not that > many > packages, no X. > > It is a bit tedious, but it can be done, Search for and purge xorg, gnome > stuff. > Aptitude remembers packages that have been installed as recommends and will > prompt > you to offer to remove them. 'deborphan' can help find & remove orphaned > libraries. > > > -- > Peace > > Greg Madden > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/201003191448.54996.gomadtr...@acsalaska.net > >
