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Bob Keyes <bob at sinister.com> writes: > As I am installing debian 3.0 right now, I decided to double-check the > statements I made earlier about its extraneous packages. With the tasks of > conventional unix server and C/C++ , it does indeed install emacs20 and > emacs-common, along with ispell, libfreetype6, libglib, libgtk, libpng, > libxaw, pdksh, lpr, python, wenglish, xfree86, xlibsm abd zsh -- all > packages that are probably quite useful but certainly not appropriate for > the base install of a convential unix server. Well, I'd expect a server machine to include all the usual text editors, because you need them to handle config files and logs. And it would be handy to have as many shells and languages like perl, python, tcl, etc., because you need things like that to properly manage a server. Things like C/C++ and their libraries, or the printer packages should probably be kept separate so they can be installed only when needed. (Though I always feel somewhat crippled on a machine without a C compiler. ;-) -- O <:#/> John Chambers + <jc at trillian.mit.edu> / \ <jmchambers at rcn.com>
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