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Debian's which hunt

Debian's which hunt

Posted Oct 29, 2021 20:57 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Debian's which hunt by Deleted user 129183
Parent article: Debian's which hunt

If you want a distro that doesn't bloat your system, what about gentoo :-)

Okay, admin'ing your own system will get a bit harder, but you'll KNOW what's there and what it's doing, because you put it there and you told it what to do.

Cheers,
Wol

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Debian's which hunt

Posted Oct 30, 2021 14:29 UTC (Sat) by Deleted user 129183 (guest, #129183) [Link]

> If you want a distro that doesn't bloat your system, what about gentoo :-)

Sure, there’s also Arch that doesn’t even include ‘man’ command in its base system.

But I don’t really care about bloat, if I did, I surely wouldn’t argue that Pinfo should be installed by default. I just think that the choice of default packages should be based on practical, rather than historical considerations.

Debian's which hunt

Posted Nov 2, 2021 8:06 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

The compiling-time argument may have become less important over the years, but you still have to lug around build dependencies for everything. When CUPS unexpectedly appears in the installation list, for instance, it's usually a sign that something's trying to smuggle yet another bundled copy of chromium onto your system. Or Java.


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