Pete's Log: amazing
Entry #866, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
it amazes me what people seem to consider reasonable parts of a base system these days. I'm installing debian on a vm in order to have a system I can test kernel hacks on. Well, I don't want X or any such things on this system. Just basic development and network stuff. So I told it to install its predetermined C development package and that's about it. I ended up having to tell it not to install things such as various X and gnome libraries, ppp, esound, telnetd, and various other silly and unnecessary things of that sorts. I don't think it understands that I want to use as little disk space as possible. Why, I remember back when I installed my first linux system, you didn't have to deal with this sillyness. heheheh. But I shouldn't complain, I'm still doing much better than I would if I were installing red hat or another distro of such bloatedness...