On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote:
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:33:57PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
There are lower thresholds one cannot go below and still stay wih current updates. My article on 'tiny centos' provides 'slimming scripts' to trim away coherent sets to taste while still satisfying dependencies http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/
Hmm. If I'm reading the script correctly then the trouble with that is that it needs more space initially before it removes the unnecessary stuff.
yep -- it is a 'subtractive' process, iterative as well
Also your 4.4 build is larger than an anaconda created 5.0..
I am not at all surprised. The purpose of that page after initially written was do describe a method to trim, usually done inside an existing install but down again inside a chroot, to build package lists for determining self-hosting minima for rebuilding efforts
be made much smaller. Just because one is familiar with hammers does not mean one should be shaving cats with one
There's a few reasons:
- Can I? The challenge :-)
But #1 is the main reason :-)
fine by me -- but the cat may object
--Russ herrold