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Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

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Trimming Down Base Install

I use Arch on a desktop computer with broadband internet access (via built in ethernet & DHCP) and I use ext3 filesystems only; no RAID. Looking through what's in base, I believe that I have no need for the following utilities but I wanted to ask here to see if this looks sane.

jfsutils
nano - I use Vim
pcmciautils
ppp
raidtools
reiserfsprogs
rp-pppoe
wireless_tools
xfsprogs

phrakture

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Re: Trimming Down Base Install

You *can* get rid of those, but it's generally not recommended.  You'll be saving, what? Like 5-10MB of space? Also, nano is part of "base" in order to be a "fallback" in the case that some more advanced editor fails to run.

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Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

Posts: 189

Re: Trimming Down Base Install

Vim is in base too, which is why I figured that excluding Nano would be okay.

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

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Re: Trimming Down Base Install

That's basically the exact list of things that I get rid of whenever I do installs, but like phrak said, it doesn't make that huge of a dent in space.  I do leave nano too, in case someone else has to do some editing and doesn't know vim.  I acutally never got rid of pcmciautils, but that's because I never noticed it...