> One annoying thing I find in debian is that there is no option to skip > installation of man and doc, something less than useful on a node or a > dedicated appliance. I'd rather save the limited disk space for real > work.
Hm. You could probably skip a whole bunch of programs for a node that is simply used for numbercrunching (ppp*, elvis-tiny, fdutils, fbset etc.). Yet those packages are considered to be essential, that's why they are in base. But if you want to get rid of your doc/* and man/* files, you could use apt.conf(5) and "Post-Invoke" to automatically delete those after having installed/updated software. That's a fast and easy way to do it inside a chroot-env. Kind regards, Jens -- ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de
