Hans Witvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some observations: > 1) logrotate is a beautifull tool, but should be optional, just like > sed, (since i'm a perl convert, i abandonned sed, awk....)
Those come in via dependencies. > mkinitrd: afaik, only needed during installation/upgrades, not? For each kernel installation. > Why have dhcp, *if* one chooses for static address? What do others think? > syslog-ng: probably can't run without it... > > 2) Get the base-packages as slim as possible: not even networking! > If i want ethernet/isdn/i2c/??? OR i want to perform an installation via > http/ftp/tftp/nfs it is my decision! > The only thing that a base-package should be able to do, is installing > other packages. I would suggest to think about the base-package as the > ground work for embedded systems, that have a minimum hardware Here we disagree. This is another purpose than what we need. > > 3) as you allready stated, you didn't mention the dependancies. > And I think, here is where 99,99% of the work lies. > > For instance ssh has a dependency on opensc (because of libopensc) > For me no big deal, as i play around with smartcards and tokes, but for > other people? I really fear that the same is true for other packages. > > Are you willing to re-analyse all packages, and rewrite the spec-files? > Eventhough the effort will be worthwhile, considering the concequences, > do you think it feasable for 10.3? I'm not willing to do all this myself ;-) But I hope that all of you will help with that and look at the culprits. This is something we should do together ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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