On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 11:20, Jim Sibley wrote: > I've been playing with several of the new > distributions and they have one thing in common - the > size of the /usr directory is growing rapidly. In > early distributions, you could contain a zLinux system > on one 3390-3 image. Now, its taking two or three if > you need to install all the development libraries.
I'm going to be snarky here and point out that Debian does not insist on pulling in dependencies on everything and its mother, and that it makes it quite easy to build and run a system without all the desktop stuff that you really don't want anyway on L/390. Adam
