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: > 1) Can I? The challenge :-) > But #1 is the main reason :-) fine by me -- but the cat may object --Russ herrold