Lets see if I can remember some of the "stuff"...

Extra languages that I would never use, extra alternatives other than XFree86, JOE ( sheesh, that one was the cause of many blow-ups in apt-get! ), extra locales, and then you get into the extra packages that don't apply to my system - no network card, no pcmcia, no need for a Windows Server, no file server, no web server, etc... etc... etc...

I am a "pack-rat" when it comes to information I have attained previously, the list of "stuff" is still resedent on my system, from the last install, and will be applied to the new install. Apt-get upgrade's are long enough on a 56k dial-up, I don't need to make them any longer by upgrading stuff I don't need, or use, as someone "delicately" put it when I was compilng the list back in v3.3

Just some information,
Ms. Cuddles