On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 9:22 PM Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM Paul Wise wrote: > > > I think that this could be useful to a subset of Debian users, > > possibly including embedded hardware and low-RAM cloud/VPS users. > > This could also be useful to bandwidth-constrained environments, the > apt package indices are really quite large these days.
+1. And devices with limited storage. Two days ago I had to install Debian 10 on a fresh SDcard and swap-in the card on an IoT gadget. The dist upgrade used too much space and the existing SDcard ran out of space when unpacking/installing a Perl package. Jeff
