Hello All,
I installed on separate partition second copy of LM 7.2 with Expert-Minimal
install.
Here are my impresions from it.
1) during install, it was suggested that this minimal install will consume
151MB of HDD. But, actual value was bigger - about 180MB
2) on top of bash, I was forced to install ash and tcsh.
tcsh was required for drakprofile and draksync
I have no idea what this is for, as standard shell which I use is bash.
Is it possible to go only with bash?
3) libgr-progs - used by imlib, pygtk, drakprofile and draksync.
It is 1.2 MB, rather large
4) perl - 13MB, python - 6MB
Both are under Development category. Are they really needed for minimal
install?
On top of minimal install, I put KDE2. And I have not used Python or Perl
with KDE2.
5) System/Base
-Menu -2891K
Pretty big. well it's possible to take it off, but I was not sure if
something will not be broken if I delete it.
-sh-utils 1296k, util-linux 2142k
Is it possible to select from them some utils which are always needed, and
place the rest in separate package? System installer doesn't allow to take
them off.
6) libraries
-libtiff 3716k
I have checked what progrums require it:
\rpm -q --requires libtiff
/sbin/ldconfig
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libm.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
Glibc uses libtiff? I thought that glibc is low-level library.
-tcl 5071k
-tk 3598k
both packages are pretty big.
--requirtes tcl
---------------------------
/sbin/ldconfig
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libdl.so.2
libm.so.6
libtcl8.3.so
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
--requirtes tk
-----------------------------
/sbin/ldconfig
ld-linux.so.2
libX11.so.6
libc.so.6
libdl.so.2
libm.so.6
libtcl8.3.so
libtk8.3.so
/bin/sh
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
oops, both are needed by glibc.
But looks like there is some kind of overlapping, no?
And, what X11 uses TK (libX11.so.6) for ?
7) Xfree86
XFree86 - 16127k
I can't belive all files from this package are needed. Is it possible to
split it in several packages?
I highly appreciate that xterm was splitted and placed in separate package,
so it would be nice to do the same wit others.
8) I really liked IceWM starting by default after Expert-minimal install.
Major disadvantgae that.... there were no programs installed for X/IceWM, so
it was completely unusable. The worst tyhing is that:
-there were no terminal program, neither in menu nor in task bar
I added aterm, very light terminal emulator, during install, but it was not
present in menu. And, as there was no concole present (or something like
KPackage), I could not install new terminal from command prompt.
Add Program on Right Mouse Button pressen on panel feature (like in
KDE/Gnome) will be very nice for IceWM, IMHO.
The rest was very smooth. I would not recommend to install XF 3.3.6 as
default, as for me it have froozen computer completely. XF 4.0.1 was
installed without any problems, all graphics mode presented were detected
corrrectly (ATI Rage Mobile)
I would appreciate if specialists will comment on my suggestions above.
Thank you for reading and writing!
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Vadim Plessky
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