On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Pelon wrote:
| On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > "strictly minimal install" aka basesystem and its dependencies
| > -> 81MB (in cooker, today)
| > ...
| > So if you see something that could be removed (or split), tell me. If
| > can't find...
|
| Although it would probably be a significant
| project, wouldn't it be nice to cut that 15M of
| modules down to just the necessary ones. I assume this would add an
| entirely new routine to the installer.
|
| There are a few other nitpicky elimination
| options:
|
| unneccesary perl modules (is there a mini-perl
| ;))
That's what I was saying: Perl is nice, but, may be, for InitScripts can be
used some subset. OK, 1.6MB is not "TOO BIG" size
| groff fonts (is there a smaller version of groff
| that would allow for man pages and nothing
| else?)
For the last month (August), I haven't used Groff at all. As well, as Man
pages. As far as I understand, in long-term everything is moving into HTML
(XML). Documentation I was using: KDE help (HTML), QT help (HTML) and a
little bit Mandrake docs (HTML). I believe some micro-browser can do this
(with basic HTML3.2 or even 2.0 support)
| most users need only one shell
|
Agree. I use Mandrake 7.0 default - bash.
| Only fractions of megabytes would be saved and
| we're talking a system that would remain static.
| I don't propose a mini distribution and I realize
| offering mini versions of packages would change
| the distribution's identity, but the more fat we
| cut, the more options we have.
|
| pelon
In addition to Pixel's mail:
ModUtils - aren't they necessary? From package description, looks like it is
Kernel/Hardware level.
They were required from me when I was doing KDE2 installation (as well as
OpenSSL, POPT and ALSA; without OpenSSL, KDE2 doesn't start)
--
Vadim Plessky
