Hans-Peter Jansen
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.
If that is really the case - than I agree, we might not want to do this... An option would be to implement this step-by-step with build service - but only if there's enough interest and help, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126