Yo,
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:26:26PM +0300, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On 26 ?????? 2000 20:59, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> | > -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.
>
> can you comment a little bit? I don't see in your mail something related to
> this in XF section.
>
Well say, the XF stuff is huge, there may (or may not) be some programs which
you don't use, or libraires that you might not really need, but we cannot
cater for all users, say, way have lots of users, user A may say, ok we need
feature foo and bar, but user B say, I need feature foo only, and user C say
I need foo and bar and baz, but I want to exclude feature blah , etc ...
> xterm and aterm are much-much smaller then tcl or tk which are present by
> default.
>
> same kind of after-install cleanup script can be useful (see below)
> |
> | 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.
>
> In kernel case, I suggest that after-install script (KDE/Gnome-based
> program?) can make clean-up. For all not-used modules.
> (I have notebook, and there is no way how I can change my video card, sound
> card or CD-ROM/DVD-ROM; hot-swappable USB devices can be supported, but it's
> in USB module)
> Still, this doesn't solve problem with workplace replication. If you have 50
> identical computers, it'll be rather stupid to install on all of them "full"
> kernel, then manually or with script delete unnecessary modules.
>
Oh you are goingt o have lots of troubles if you want to delete the modules
manually. Think of the rpm error messages on kernel upgrade.
Perhaps, I have not quoted a very good example, in kernel case, if you want
minimal compile your own.
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