Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 20. Februar 2006 21:06 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> Mauricio Teixeira <netmask@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> AT the Desktop dialog (KDE/GNOME) use "Other" and select minimal
> >> desktop...
> >
> > Speaking about that. This "minimal" install isn't so minimal. I
> > think 600MB for a text-only machine and so minimal functionality is
> > way too much.
> >
> > Do you think it's possible to start a "task force" to search for
> > uneeded packages and strip that down to a real minimum? I would be
> > very happy to help if that would be interesting.
>
> This is definitely possible - but let's do it for 10.2.  If you can
> find a consensus on this new minimal install, I would look closer at
> it.

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.

Pete