On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:26:52PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > We're working on an embedded system, which I'm just upgrading to buster. > It eats ~ 180..190 MiB. We dpkg-exclude /usr/share/doc/ and some more, > which are not needed there. > > Also, we use not the official Debian archive with its > 53000 binary > packages, but a local mirror with only 450 packages. Otherwise apt > collapses once in a while with our 128 MiB RAM. > > It is still Debian armel, only it's reduced and we add our own dozen > of packages. debianforembeddedsystems/rules :—)
Yes if you do your own build you can make it smaller. Dumping /usr/share/doc, man pages, locale files, and a few other things can save a fair bit of space. Still not yocto level of shrinking of course or alpine. -- Len Sorensen
