On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > I hadn't asked asked quite the "right" question ;/ > A better question might have been "What makes a minimal system?" A > definitive answer is unlikely. A comparison of packages that Debian labels > as "Essential &/or required", Slackware tags as "A", the order in which > Linux From Scratch builds will likely point in a valuable direction.
A system like this is supposed to be a minimal system that could still bootstrap: http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html You can check here for links to lightweight alternative libraries and programs: http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Alternative_libraries If you check some of the uclibc or musl based distributions, many are fairly minimal and will give you an idea of what basics you need in a system. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
