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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:43:58 +0100
- Message-id: <ho8xfugjs1.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> "Claes Bäckström" <claes.backstrom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> Note that in most cases I omitted dependencies, so e.g. glibc in the
>> list below could be removed since it's required by others. grep is
>> not in the list but required by aaa_base.
>
> Oh, the dependencies are interesting too. perl for example is quite
> big, would be nice to *not* require it in the base system, it's almost
> impossible now to get rid of it without breaking dependencies ...
Yes, I agree. But this is a second step. If anybody is interested in
getting this smaller, ideas and patches are welcome. But this is
nothing I personally will do right now,
Andreas
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> "Claes Bäckström" <claes.backstrom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> Note that in most cases I omitted dependencies, so e.g. glibc in the
>> list below could be removed since it's required by others. grep is
>> not in the list but required by aaa_base.
>
> Oh, the dependencies are interesting too. perl for example is quite
> big, would be nice to *not* require it in the base system, it's almost
> impossible now to get rid of it without breaking dependencies ...
Yes, I agree. But this is a second step. If anybody is interested in
getting this smaller, ideas and patches are welcome. But this is
nothing I personally will do right now,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, 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
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