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Topic: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

propongo crear un cd de pocos MB, borrar toda esplicacion, ayuda, archivos de texto, y dejar los programas activos y configurados como asta ahora, o crear un listado de lo que se puede borrar, como en las miniditribuciones, y cuando se instala un programa poder saber que eliminar para que siga funcionando con el menor tamaño. ahora con la beta 10 faltan todos los programas que traia la version 8, y ya tiene 530MB. la ventaja es que al instalar la distribucion en un USB o HD la descompresion no ocupe semejante lugar.
todo lo que se borre se lo puede encontrar en el disco estandar de la distribucion, yo uso crunch en mi compaq en el HD y en USB, nunca leo una ayuda, y en los archivos de configuracion borro todo lo que es esplicacion dejando solo lo que es la configuracion, eso reduce el tamaño del archivo de texto ... porque si slitaz puede, nosotros no?.
ademas, cuando se tiene un problema, se googlea y alguien te dice exactamente que hacer y donde hacerlo.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

From Google Translate, the above post reads as:

intend to create a CD of a few MB, remove any explanation, help files, text, and leave the active programs and set to boom now, or create a list of what can be deleted, as in the miniditribuciones, and when installing a know that programs can remove to keep it running with the smaller size. now with the beta 10 are missing all the programs that brought the version 8, and already has 530MB. the advantage is that when you install the distribution on a USB or HD decompression does not occupy such a place.
delete everything that it can be found in the standard of the distribution disk, I use in my compaq crunch in the HD and USB, I never read a help, and configuration files delete everything that is explanation, leaving only the which is the configuration, that reduces the size of the text file ... SliTaz can because if we do not?.
besides, when you have a problem, and someone googles tells you exactly what to do and where to do it.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

I like having the man pages and the info pages around. Of course, you can google. But I'm not always online on my netbook.
The man pages are usually easy to understand and well written. A lot quicker than reading forum posts, looking for your answear.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

GuruX wrote:

I like having the man pages and the info pages around. Of course, you can google. But I'm not always online on my netbook.
The man pages are usually easy to understand and well written. A lot quicker than reading forum posts, looking for your answear.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

Man pages are the heritage of Unix/Unix-like systems.

Also, I think it's a standard of quality to include documentation with your software; I respect the apparent objective of the OP to reduce the footprint of the operating system.
I must disagree with their assertion that this is the manner in which to do it.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

It's also important to note that Crunchbang was never intentionally a lightweight distro. It has never intentionally competed with Slitaz or puppy linux. So the bigger size, well, thats no big deal to me, as long as it fits on a CD.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

If a part of the Linux system didn't get blown up over the years due to programmer's laziness or user's craving for features then it's the man pages. They shouldn't be punished (left out) for the errors made elsewhere.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

man pages rule, that is all. smile

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

pido disculpa si mi intencion no es comprendida, yo se que todo debe ir junto con cada software por la licencia, lo que yo necesito es que la mejor distribucion que he encontrado para un usuario comun, como crunchbang, tenga la posibilidad de ser  destripada, borrar todo lo que no es necesario para el funcionamiento, guardando una copia del original para consultar algun procedimiento o tenerlo a mano fuera de linea. Como yo no se como hacerlo se me ocurrio sugerir el asunto, por si algun guru de linux ya lo hizo o me puede sugerir como hacerlo. Me gusta instalarlo en un USB para poder conserva los cambios que hago y poder arrancarlo en cualquier maquina.  me interesa openoffice porque en mi trabajo y en los e-mail puedo leer cualquier archivo. debo desinstalar esta parte de crunch, y agregar openoffice.
no importa que sea mas pesado. solo me importa que me es mas util. yo se que no es una distribucion para competir con nadie, pero me gustaria poder hacerlo. si alguien puede indicarme como lo agradeceria.
ninguna de esas distribuciones a pesar de ser muy buenas e inteligentes no son capaces de acceder a una cantidad de paquetes precompilados como esta. lo he intentado y no lo puedo lograr.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

Google Translate:
I apologize if my intention is not understood, I know everything must go along with each software license, what I need is that the best distribution I've found for a common user, as CrunchBang, has the possibility of being gutted, erase everything that is not necessary for the operation, keeping a copy of the original to see some method or have it hand-out. Since I do not know how it occurred to me to suggest the matter, if any linux guru and did it or I can suggest how. I like to install it on a USB to retain the changes I make and be able to boot on any machine. openoffice interests me because in my work and e-mail I can read any file. I remove this part of crunch, and add openoffice.
but no matter how heavy. I only care that is most useful to me. I know it is not a distribution to compete with anybody, but I would like to do so. if anyone can tell me as agradeceria.
none of these distributions in spite of being very good and intelligent are not able to access a number of prebuilt packages like this. I've tried and I can not achieve.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

I can't read Google Translate translations; I think it might be easier to just learn Spanish. hmm

...so the OP basically wants a short script that would delete man pages from his persistent USB install, freeing up more room for things like OpenOffice?
>blink<
I'm not going to try this on my only installed system, but what about this?

sudo aptitude purge man-db
rmdir /usr/local/man
rmdir /usr/local/share/man
rmdir /usr/share/man

Would this do it?  The only one of those directories that has any data on my Statler install is /usr/share/man.  I only have 14.2MB there, and I've installed a boatload of extra packages for A/V codecs and whatnot.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

@pvsage - some minor corrections:

sudo aptitude purge man-db
sudo rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/man
sudo rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/share/man
sudo rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/share/man

BTW if you feel uncomfortable manually deleting locales, you can use localepurge or BleachBit instead.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

were can I discut this in spanish, please, help me and gracias for all

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

Se habla principalmente Ingles en los foros CrunchBang. Si quieres hablar espanol, debe incluir una traduccion de Google en tus mensajes.

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Re: reduce the size in MB of the same features CrunchBang **translated**

Les animamos a salir de sus problemas en un pequeño espacio para el beneficio de dólares tratando de vincular la lengua del niño es feliz de transferencia. neutral

PS: El Qué consigues cuando dejas una cortesía del alemán al vietnamita, hindi, tailandés, y, finalmente, se traducen al español. Gracias Google. lol

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