Thanks a lot . If i need anything in that matter i will contact you . I'm really thank you very much. I think i will first complete the whole Environment (for development and debuging ) , then i will remove a lot of packages as you send me and may be i will ask you for any other packages if i think i can remove it :D . I have a small question , how i can remove installed package from the distro. ... Thanks again .
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:44:10 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Advanced LFS > > Fady Fawzy wrote: > > Dear all , > > > > I'm going to build LFS system as a Virtual appliance and i put a > > challenge for myself to build the appliance as small as possible . It > > will handle some web app. ,JAVA ,and C++ programs . > > > > I'm now in Ch6 in LFS 6.7 , So any suggestions about any un-needed > > tools , or any suggestions about any packages that i can ignore it to > > make the appliance small as possible. > > > > Also if i going to build LFS to handle NTP protocol only ,Am i need > > all this packages and features. > > There is a big difference between a development system and a cut down > appliance. I'd suggest leaving everything in for a development > environment, but you can remove a lot from an appliance: > > man pages > gcc > autotools > m4 > bison > less > make > man-db > tar > texinfo > vim > > all can probably be removed from an appliance. You can remove several > others depending on what you want your appliance to do. Of course you > will need to add samba and java if you want those capabilities. > > You may want to investigate busybox or even Tom's Root/Boot Disk, > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > -- Bruce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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