> > trying to get the aforementioned peripherals (USB mouse and SB Live) to
> > work. I finally just gave up on it and decided to use Mandrake as a
> > desktop.
>
> I stripped a mandrake system down (as far as I could) to bare bones
> and began to tailor it to what I needed.. When the next release came out
> there was just no way to upgrade.. changes to startup scripts caused
> major confusion and dependencies began to force all sorts of unecessary
> packages on me .. until I was having trouble locating things again.
Speaking of dependencies.. in all of my installs of stripped down systems, I've only
encountered two dependancies I didn't like: ethereal requires: xlibs, libgtk1.2, and
libglib1.2 (I tend to use tethereal (console based sniffer on acid) and editcap
(wonderful tool.. very useful for translating data from forign sniffers {like
redhat})... however since ethereal also includes the nifty gui.. those dependancies
are required.. the other one is the unoffical webmin-core package which requires
man2html which requires httpd... and since webmin isn't strictly a "webserver" perse..
I gain the anoying requirement of having to pick a webserver to install.. blech..
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