Subject: Reducing a Debian guests package foot print
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders42@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:05:59 -0800

I love how I seem to always post on Fridays.  Probably because I have 
spent the previous week or more researching and testing with less than 
optimal results.

So on to my questions.

I have a Linux-Vserver Debian Wheezy host up -- thank you Ben Green for 
the instructions and the kernel & utilities packages.

I have created two guests so far.  One to experiment with and the other 
is to be used for real.

    I noticed while doing the debootstrap build there seemed to be a lot 
of packages that have no reason to be in a guest.  Maybe it is just my 
inexperience with the method but I don't remember seeing so many 
packages when I built CentOS guests.

    So I am wondering if anyone has come up with a process to remove 
unnecessary packages.  I remember there was a thread or two about 
something similar so if anyone remembers about when they were I will 
search the archives.

Also are thee any other ways of building Debian guests on a Debian host? 
  I just read about using a tarball or tarballs.  Is there a selection 
that others have built?


TIA,
Rod
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