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Solus Linux to Provide Direct Binary Dependencies, More Packaging Improvements

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Marius Nestor
Apr 12, 2016

There are some big announcements in this week’s newsletter, and we’ll start with the work done in preparation to offer users a more minimal and flexible ISO image of the Solus Linux distribution, as the team started shrinking the size of the system.base component, thus demoting several packages, which have been moved to system.utils.

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Marius Nestor

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