[... please don't use mime on this list ...] > I want to know if there is a way to clean out all of the > copyright,copyleft,changelog, and other non-essential files in my Debian > installation. i also want to clear out all of the non-English related > stuff and the non-i386 stuff fron the tree. All of this takes up tons of > space. These files are fine for learning purposes and for being able to > establish contact with the various package maintainers. --however I have > need of the disk space being taken up by these files. I have tried to > remove them manually once before and many of them actually cause > dependency faults if they are removed. Is it possible to remove them > from a complete distribution tree of .deb files and repackage the > distribution as a totally customized distro strictly for my own personal > use?
Did you try instead of removing the files making them 0 bytes? So for example if you have a list of files you don't need, you could do something like ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #! /bin/sh exec < file_list while read f; do cat /dev/null > $f done ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Then the files are still there, but take much less space. This may be enough to keep dpkg happy. On a more general solution, for reasons of disk space saving, a switch could be added to dpkg (and dselect and apt) not to put any of the files in the /usr/doc hierarchy on the disk. You could file this as a wish-list item in the bug system if it is important to you. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
