On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:32:41PM -0500, Klaus Weidner wrote: > - upgrade to current Debian sarge/testing (this has increased the size > quite a bit due to extra dependencies)
Here's some more info about this. One problem is the following dependency chain: xlibs => libxft1 => libfontconfig1 => fontconfig => defoma => perl => perl-modules This means that any kind of X11 installation will automatically pull in the full 22MB Perl installation, even though for most purposes the perl-base install would be sufficient. Also, fontconfig *insists* on installing extra fonts. The ttf-bitstream-vera package isn't very big, but I'd like to have a choice for a handheld system: Depends: .., ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-freefont | gsfonts-x11 | msttcorefonts Shouldn't this be weakened to a "Recommends:" instead? In the "stable" release, it was still possible to do an X11 install using only the bitmapped fonts, and I was able to build a "base" distribution in <64MB. Now I need at least 90MB, even after manually deleting extras. Note that "xbase-clients" also depends on fontconfig and OpenGL libraries. I've worked around the OpenGL package via a fake libgl1 package (using equivs), but I've given up on the font issue. BTW, are there any updates planned for the unstable Opie packages? The last snapshot is over a year old, and it would be a nice alternative to the X11 platform. -Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
