Changes between Version 88 and Version 89 of VboxApps

Timestamp:

Oct 14, 2014, 6:57:24 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Rytis

Comment:

Extra cleanup steps

VboxApps

@@ -498 +498 @@
 
 First step is to remove non-critical packages that are essential ([https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian source]).
-For Debian Squeeze 7.1 that are:
-{{{
-acpi acpid busybox eject iamerican ibritish info ispell laptop-detect logrotate manpages net-tools os-prober tasksel traceroute usbutils wamerican
+For Debian Wheezy 7.6 that are:
+{{{
+acpi acpid busybox debconf-i18n eject groff-base iamerican ibritish info ispell laptop-detect logrotate installation-report manpages man-db net-tools os-prober rsyslog tasksel tasksel-data traceroute usbutils wamerican
 }}}
 Use aptitude to also remove `linux-headers-*` packages but don't remove `dkms` or `virtualbox-guest-dkms`! Run `apt-get autoremove` after this to get rid of now unused packages. `apt-get autoclean` and `apt-get clean` should remove downloaded archives to free up space.
@@ -509 +509 @@
 dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`
 }}}
+
+Now, we can remove the contents of the following folders:
+
+1. /usr/share/locale/ - since we don't need all locales.
+2. /usr/share/doc/ - since we don't need the documentation.
+3. /usr/share/man/ - since we don't need the manuals and we've removed the man program.
+4. /var/log/ - since we won't be needing all that logging.
+5. /var/cache/debconf/ - since that cache is disposable.
+6. /var/lib/apt/lists/ - since those lists are huge and can quickly be recreated with apt-get update.
 
 ==== Updating Grub ====