At 04:40 PM 1/21/01, you wrote:
> > My firewall machine has 211 packages, which includes perl,
> > python, gcc, apache, etc, etc.
>
>Yikes! gcc and perl on a firewall?
Useful for building a new kernel and serving active web-page content and
other excuses :-)
> > Undoubtedly both machines could be trimmed
> > down ...
>
>Undoubtedly. :-)
>
> > Given your 106 packages vs. the 1763 of the distribution you're at the
> > 15-16% installed level.
>
>Try your math again: 106/1763 = 6%.
Invert my number. Must have been asleep at the keyboard. My calculation
actually was that the distribution had 15-16 times as many packages as you
have installed. Totally incorrect to report it as a percent.
> > Obviously you're ahead of me on the project! That's the way it should
> > be. Another tool comes to mind - RPMFIND which has the ability to find
> > package updates and resolve dependencies. It might be a solution for you.
>
>Yeah, but again, this is something that NEEDS to be in the distro, not
>just on my systems. Everytime I need to write something that I get
>with another distro, I need to re-evaluate my reasons for using it.
Agreed - it would be much better if Mandrake provided it.
David
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