Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
Having seen the install size of RH8 and RH9 personally, I'd recommend a distro that can install a smaller amount of required binaries. Up for the dream team to decide if advance package management software (like RPM or DPKG) would be needed, or if they'd go towards source distros like Gentoo.
[install size meaning stripped of all services and programs aside from
those essential to make the system run with the package management
system installed]
as an sop at the ofc, we install a distro (w/ base files only) together will the development files (compilers, package builders).
then we strip out the sources, rebuild applications, strip out the excess, test then build a package (including the dependencies).
and that package will be installed on a target machine with a "minimalistic" gnu/linux distro
with this approach you can avoid the package chain reaction that will lead to unwanted files, etc. but still maintains the pros of the package mngt sys.
imagine a single package including the latest & stable releases of apache,mysql,php, and their dependencies without the unwanted modules, etc.
but this is only applicable to systems with a specific design.
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