Re: [Hampshire] Debian Etch and Synaptic?

Alex wrote:
>> I just installed Etch (minimum/base) system with a goal of creating a
>> cut down version of the system. Checking du -s / on the system, which
>> isn't quit correct as it shows 0.5G in /proc, I still find I have a
>> couple of G's disk space in use, so I started with Synaptic to remove
>> some packages which allow me to claw back a couple hundred megs of disk.
>
>
> Unrelated to your request, but perhaps helpful. Could you not `apt-cache
> autoclean` to remove the cached .debs? That might clear a few hundred
> meg if
> you've just installed.
>
> Just a thought,

Thanks Alex. I was wondering if /var/cache/apt/archives/* was required
by "anything". I was going to poke around google to see what others had
said, but I was fairly certain that they weren't needed after the
install. Thanks for confirming that.