On Tuesday 25 October 2011, Per Jessen wrote:
Ruediger Meier wrote:
At least for me the resulting size is very important. I always try to keep virtual machines as small as possible to have fast full backups, migration, snapshot restore etc.
Okay, also a valid point. What sort of size would be acceptable for you? (just wondering, I rarely allocate less than 10G for root).
Usually I have 2-3 GB root partitions even on real machines. That means the installed rpms should consume less than 500MB space. But the topic is not very important to me because minimizing it by myself is not much work and it needs to be done only one time. Then deploying using dd or rsync. More important is to keep the packages itself small and without too much useless dependencies. For example some packages like glibc-32bit/locale, yast, ConsoleKit, etc. are hard to remove. But that's another topic. Maybe a little optimizing 'minimum server selection' for size too would discover some of the ugly dependencies by the way. Solving them could be also useful for all the other patterns. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org