On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > Yes, that should work, but (in general) I don't recommend attempting > to "minimize" the system by removing packages. It ends up being > extremely painful to craft a custom set of packages for desired > features. > > Instead, just turn off the things you don't want. Disk space is > cheap, and your time isn't.
Indeed. Disk space is cheap, time isn't. In particular, manifest import time is a killer. 12 minutes per zones, you gotta be kidding. This means that an important aspect of any current minimization effort I put in is to actually reduce the number of services to a minimum, in particular any service I want turned off is better not installed in the first place. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
