Hello all. I am somewhat new to linux, and knoppix certainly is helping

I recently did a knx-hdinstall of knoppix 3.2 and its running alright, but there is a lot of junk to clean out (I don't need ISDN stuff for example). Tracking it down and avoiding problems is difficult. I was hopeing it might be possible to 'build up' to the components of knoppix that I want, from a vanilla debian install.

My problem is all the tweaks and configuration changes that have gone into the knoppix distribution. I can get a list of installed packages, but there are a lot of them. (dpkg -l gives over 1700). I could go through an install them all on debian, but my system would look almost nothing like the knoppix install I am looking at, simply because of the large amount of custom configuration that has been done.

Is there anywhere that the configuration changes are documented?

Or perhaps some way to compare the default configurations to the knoppix configurations? Is knoppix entirely debian package based?

Or are there apps that have been compiled/installed 'by hand' as it were?

I am trying to save some of the configuration, while ditching other parts. For example the console has a sane text size instead of the horibbly stretched text I get when installing debian default. I have no idea where this configuation option is. I'd like to keep the gui working the same as, as it seems to be running smoothy for me now.

I did consider starting from a smaller distro, but I'd like having a larger set of 'options' to choose from so I don't get stuck.

Is there such a 'config repository' ?
Assuming no, how would I go about recreating something knoppix like from scratch?