Processor optimisation (Re: Ubuntu & Debian packages)

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:47:13PM +1000, David wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Eric SCHAEFFER wrote:
> > As Ubuntu is based on Debian with some "minor" modification (but very
> > good "minor" modifications, don't misunderstand my words ;), it is
> > effectively a solid server platform.
> > But the install don't give you the choice to install or not the
> > graphical environment, no ? (maybe in expert mode, I didn't tried
> > thought)
> > I ask this because I need to install again my server, and want to use
> > Ubuntu because of the easy install and the support for recent packages.
> > But I don't want to have X and Gnome installed on it...
> 
> apt-get remove xserver-xfree86
> (don't take my word for the package name.. I could be wrong).
> I think you will find it will remove all the packages that depend on X,
> including Gnome.

It shouldn't; X is a network-capable system, and GNOME should be able to
function without a local X server.

libx11-6 would probably be a better low-level package to remove; but not
installing it in the first place, as Matt described, is better again.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]