Yo.
>On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:52:56PM +0300, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I installed on separate partition second copy of LM 7.2 with Expert-Minimal
> install.
> Here are my impresions from it.
>
> 1) during install, it was suggested that this minimal install will consume
> 151MB of HDD. But, actual value was bigger - about 180MB
>
> 2) on top of bash, I was forced to install ash and tcsh.
> tcsh was required for drakprofile and draksync
> I have no idea what this is for, as standard shell which I use is bash.
> Is it possible to go only with bash?
>
Consider tcsh and ash as a safe fall-back? E.g. chmouel screwed up big time
with initscripts some time back with the tmpdir.sh and I was lucky to have
tcsh around with me.
Also ash is the minimalistic shell which still supports /bin/sh scripts,
be thankful if your system is broke and you still have it around with you.
> 5) System/Base
> -Menu -2891K
> Pretty big. well it's possible to take it off, but I was not sure if
> something will not be broken if I delete it.
>
Basically we have the menu system now if you don't have this you do 't get any
menus for wm.
> -sh-utils 1296k, util-linux 2142k
> Is it possible to select from them some utils which are always needed, and
> place the rest in separate package? System installer doesn't allow to take
> them off.
>
See below on the XF split.
> 6) libraries
> -libtiff 3716k
> I have checked what progrums require it:
> \rpm -q --requires libtiff
> /sbin/ldconfig
> ld-linux.so.2
> libc.so.6
> libm.so.6
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
>
No, libtiff requires glibc not the other way around.
> Glibc uses libtiff? I thought that glibc is low-level library.
>
> -tcl 5071k
> -tk 3598k
> both packages are pretty big.
> --requirtes tcl
> ---------------------------
> /sbin/ldconfig
> ld-linux.so.2
> libc.so.6
> libdl.so.2
> libm.so.6
> libtcl8.3.so
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
> libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
>
> --requirtes tk
> -----------------------------
> /sbin/ldconfig
> ld-linux.so.2
> libX11.so.6
> libc.so.6
> libdl.so.2
> libm.so.6
> libtcl8.3.so
> libtk8.3.so
> /bin/sh
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
>
> oops, both are needed by glibc.
See above.
> And, what X11 uses TK (libX11.so.6) for ?
>
See above.
> 7) Xfree86
> XFree86 - 16127k
> I can't belive all files from this package are needed. Is it possible to
> split it in several packages?
> I highly appreciate that xterm was splitted and placed in separate package,
> so it would be nice to do the same wit others.
>
xterm is already in a separate package, as of 7.2.
And no, probably not, consider this:
Kernel has lots of modules, you're dfinitely not goin to use all of them, you
cannot split all the modules one by one. Applying this rule, you cannot do this
to the packages. On a certain level they must be split (e.g. main and -devel)
but when it comes to individual programs, it's not always a good idea.
--
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