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Anyone who has downloaded Debian likely has view this page: https://www.debian.org/distrib/ Now maybe, it's just me, but I despise the formatting on the page. Now you may have come across this link: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ And naturally neither the netinstall nor X...

Have you heard of paragraphs? Have you heard of antiX? You can get gnome to work on Debian buster based antiX without systemd and without any systemd-shim. You are suggesting that what I am doing is not only already done, but done better than any one person could, so why do you bother when AntiX wo...

My apologize for not releasing MX No Frills on time. As I reached the deadline, I realized more and more that it did not meet my high standards; it was ok but then most distros and respins are ok and you never go back to them. There is a lot of work that goes in into making a distro; I can't imagine...

@ Head on a stick I guarantee I could out-due both those distros you pointed to by any measure; they look amateurish. Their kernels are alsa high compatibility but crap 686 arch; ancient. I'll give them credit, they did a great job of a minimal open box installation except for the bling aspect; just...

Well you are right about something, "with great power comes great responsibility". I don't expect most users to make the right call. In fact, I expect most of them to make the wrong call. Nevertheless, for those that endeavors whether blinded or enlightened the path forth is clear should y...

You guys are absolutely hilarious. Just a bunch of pompous arrogant dudes. @ head on a stick Firstly, since this was a bulleye install, systemd comes from bullseye. "This embarrassing notion that you think it is coming from mx...is absolute folly and hilarious" @ the other guy You need to ...

To answer both of your enquiries. To the first the point is not to mix the packages from different base versions of Debian i.e., buster with bullseye. Thus as a matter of principle if you install a bullseye Debian then you use the bullseye repo. Now I'm not sure if you are referring to systemd or sy...

Pursuant and to appease my colleague, you should remove those repositories thereafter. However Debian must be Free and thus pursuant to installing sysvinit whilest keeping systemd, this work around is necessary and within the meaning of Free without going against the stable Debian philosophy.

First you need to add two repos the your sources.list deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free. (provides maintained systemd-shim) deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free (provides other systemd dependencies, not in bullseye repo) Then: sudo apt update. Then: sudo a...

@Head on a stick What constructive feedback you provide, simultaneously slightly insulting but not over the top :) You have expanded my knowledge of systemd, but she still a fat cow with cow powers. Even so, I'm glad that those systemd mitigations put your mind at ease, but you are fooling yourself ...

This would not be my first OS remaster, good old Micro XP days, but it would technically be my first Linux OS remaster. I have been playing with Linux for some time. Started with Ubuntu, loved it. If the system broke, I could easily fix it. Tinkered with Bodhi remastering, pissed of admins at the Ub...

@ stevepusser You can interchange these words: "runtime dependencies" "rdepends" "reverse dependencies". Originally, I created the wrong script (for forward dependencies aka depends), but you should see I updated the post to include the rdpends version which works flawl...

Thanks and I complete agree.

@stevepusser

What do you suggest then?

Since Debian installs recommended packages by default, and a program may or may not work well without those extra packages for users, how are you going to account for those? Those extra packages Steve are runtime dependencies aka reverse dependencies aka rdepends. My original post was flawed in tha...

I am that user lols. Henceforth, after the reducing footprint post, I will post only on Debian's site thus handling the bot accusation. Why isn't so many users have so little constructive things to say. Oops you see that, I answered my own question again.

The end goal is reduce the footprint that apps and their dependencies use. To that end, we need to know the sizes of packages and their dependencies. Unfortunately as any experienced Linux user will tell you, there is no safe way to automatically remove dependencies i.e., through a script. Inevitabl...

The purpose of this information particularly in the offtopic is to later link it in another thread. And let me just say Debian rules and Ubuntu drools :) Understanding Dos and Window Managers Ubuntu and Debian are like DOS; it receives input from the keyboard and responds to input by outputting text...