On 12/04/2013 11:58 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > I'm quite familiar with the differences between say, openldap-<version> and > openldap-libs-<version> and you're right that many were just the libs. But > if my memory is correct (I could be wrong!) openldap wasn't just the -libs > package required. Perhaps there wasn't a -libs package available to whoever > designed the RPM (whether it was designed by the Fedora maintainers or > someone else), but my memory says I had to install openldap itself (the > full package) to get courier's RPM happy. And the point wasn't having all > these DMBS packages installed, but the fact that this was a very small hard > disk drive (< 4GB HDD if I recall, this WAS more than 12 years ago) so I > had to REALLY prioritize what went on there, since it was a combo system to > be my home e-mail server plus my print/file server, plus the samba server, > plus the internet gateway. Those packages, just the libs and what ever else > was required, used a large chunk of my HDD that I could have used for other > purposes.
Just to set your mind at ease, "openldap" contains the libraries, "openldap-servers" contain the daemons (the server), and "openldap-clients" contains the command-line binaries. So you can rest easy knowing you never actually had OpenLDAP unnecessarily installed! :) And 2-4GB still sounds like a lot of disk space to me! A stock Fedora system of that vintage, with everything you mention installed (minus the GUI of course; this is a headless server after all) would be about 300 MB. Granted, 300 MB for a basic system is still a lot of space (maybe 70 MB of that is locale information). Of course, OpenWRT does the same tasks with only about 8 MB of space, doing things more the way you probably would (bare essential support libraries only, stripped). I would agree modern distros are getting quite bloated, as the kitchen sink goes in permanently because someone expects it even if I don't need one. But I live with it (mediocrity at its best). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
