On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm taking a look at this today, and I think there's still a lot more >> room for progress. I ran Seth Vidal's 'installed-size.py' script [1] >> on it, and it shows quite a few things that could probably be cleaned > > Great! Thanks for looking into this! I didn't know of the script, but > the output looks mighty useful. > >> up [2]. For instance - emacs is requires by xs-pkgs...I use emacs > > You are right. emacs isn't part of a slim diet. The xs-pkgs deplist is > split in two parts, the first part is a mix of packages we really need > plus stuff we seem to pull in to make things work. The bottom part > lists our real deps, the packages we use: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-pkgs;a=blob;f=xs-pkgs.spec.in;h=bfdec42720a513b52da6ca750d5f8acb89f6949e;hb=HEAD
Ok, I'll take a look. >> Also of course gnome and that entire stack are getting >> pulled in - is this from anaconda? You already talked about getting >> rid of anaconda - if you don't need X at all, then obviously the whole >> thing could be trimmed dramatically. > > I do need anaconda to run the install :-) Anaconda knows how to run a > pure text installer if it doesn't find its graphical deps. But the > package pulls them in anyway, and pungi isn't smart enough to trick it > :-) Ok, yes, I was confusing what gets installed on the install disc with what gets installed on the server! So as far as the stuff installed on the server goes, is GNOME or X even needed? > There's a couple of other people looking at different aspects of this. > Do you mind if we bring this discussion back to the list? Yes, I just got bit by the lack of reply-to-list. :-) Replying to the list now. -RN -- Robin Norwood "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel