Hans-Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Andreas, I really like your always optimistic tenor, but I fear, it's 
> not done by just removing a few packages from the minimum list and 
> adjusting some dependencies. You may spare a few 10th MB this way. 
>
> In order to get down to a really small size for minimum installation and 
> use the same packages in both purposes (let's call it "in slim and full 
> setting"), the feature predefinition has to be moved from compile time 
> to run time for a lot of packages, and since this is contradicting the 
> ubiquitous usage of autoconf and cpp, it will be a huge undertake, not 
> to talk about the impact on testing.

If that is really the case - than I agree, we might not want to do
this...  An option would be to implement this step-by-step with build
service - but only if there's enough interest and help,

Andreas
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