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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mick crane wrote:
> > have a look in /usr/bin  ?
> 
> Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin :
>   https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard
> 
> /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs.
> /sbin is its add-on for system administrators.
> /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on my system.
> 
> 
> Thakur Mahashaya wrote:
> > no trick to be honest
> 
> But are you aware that "standard utility" can be the start of a nice
> dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ?
> (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.)

$ aptitude search '?priority(required)'

will get you a list of the packages installed that absolutely
have to be installed. 

Remember the discussion about why Debian doesn't have a default
firewall policy, because everyone needs something different?

Same thing applies here: this is the minimal core that gets you
a working system. Two things should pop out immediately:

1. Some packages have alternatives, where any of the
alternatives will work but you do have to have one of them.

2. There's no boot loader. A boot loader is optional because it
might be supplied by an outside system, like a VM hypervisor.

-dsr-

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Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 12:10 +0200
  Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 12:20 +0200
    Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 13:30 +0200
      Re: utilities Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-09-25 15:40 +0200
        Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 15:50 +0200
      Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 16:10 +0200
        Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 17:20 +0200
        Re: utilities Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-09-25 18:20 +0200
    Re: utilities Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
  Re: utilities Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-09-25 12:40 +0200
    Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 13:00 +0200
    Re: utilities Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
    Re: utilities Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200

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