From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (1596 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 04:58:26 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA29513 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:58:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex8.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.108]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA11912 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:58:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13fewv-0002Ov-00; Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:58:21 +1100 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:58:21 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: down for the count In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: With debian, you can look at the package lists and see the dependancies for those packages. So if you really wanted to install just the ones you needed, you could browse the package lists and make a note of the ones you need. I've not done a debian install for awhile but I think you can manually select the packages you want, then debian should deal with the dependancies anyway, so you shouldn't need to do this. How people running other distros know what they need installed to run stuff is sometimes beyond me. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701