Re: [Rule-list] slinky, miniconda, and the minimum install

[Devon]

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On Saturday 30 March 2002 04:33 pm, address@hidden wrote:
Just a few thoughts on minimal installs, and how much we want to strip 
away:

>   anacron-2.3-17.i386.rpm
Anacron allows a machine that is shutdown daily to run missed cronjobs. 
This is useful on a home machine that may not be left running.
>   ash-0.3.7-2.i386.rpm
Agreed, it can be added manually if desired.
>   crontabs-1.10-1.noarch.rpm
Crontabs includes some useful cronjobs. Without them cron is useless.
>   dosfstools-2.7-1.i386.rpm
Without dosfstools, it is not possible to make a boot disk using syslinux.
>   eject-2.0.9-2.i386.rpm
The installer uses it to eject the cdrom. The package including docs is 
small and weighs in at about 40K installed.
>   grub-0.90-11.i386.rpm
Agreed, we default to lilo in the installer.
>   hdparm-4.1-2.i386.rpm
Hrmm, may be useful. Some old drives don't like dma, and hdparam can be 
used to disable dma.
>   hotplug-2001_04_24-11.i386.rpm
Agreed.
>   mailx-8.1.1-22.i386.rpm
>   parted-1.4.16-8.i386.rpm
Agreed on both.
>   pciutils-2.1.8-23.i386.rpm
I'm not sure. 'lspci' is a handy tool.
>   procmail-3.21-1.i386.rpm
Could be moved to the network packages.
>   quota-3.01pre9-3.i386.rpm
Agreed.
>   textutils-2.0.14-2.i386.rpm
Text utils contains a lot of useful binaries. cat, cut, head, tail, sort, 
uniq, wc all come to mind.

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