Thanks Achim,
All three good points :)

I knew you could customise the distribution but didn't realise it could be made 
smaller. Is the minimal version downloadable somewhere or I should make it via 
the assembly? Do you know what version would I need for Java 1.5 compatibility?

Thanks, Dan. 
> On 19 May 2016, at 19:36, Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel, 
> 
> for pure Felix it would just be the fileinstaller. 
> Did you check if the minimal karaf is actually small enough? 
> Another possibility would be to create custom Karafs with profiles. 
> Just to give you some ideas to look at. :-)
> 
> regards, Achim 
> 
> 2016-05-19 18:49 GMT+02:00 Daniel McGreal <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Karaf users!
>> 
>> Not strictly a Karaf based question, but I figure that Karaf users may well 
>> have experience here.
>> 
>> I enjoy using Karaf. One of the best bits is the ability to base my 
>> deployment model from my compile model via the karaf-maven-plugin and 
>> generation of the feature file and provision of those bundles via mvn:urls. 
>> I now need to deploy some code onto devices on which Karaf is just too big 
>> (I have ~5 megs of disk space) and would like to bring similar orchestration 
>> to Felix, solo.
>> 
>> Is there something similar for deploying to Felix?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Dan.
>> 
>> PS I have had a look into OSGi Subsystems and the Aries implementation and 
>> its Maven plugin. The plugin doesn’t pull in transitives (not the end of the 
>> world, but harder to manage) and I don’t yet understand how to provision the 
>> bundles from a repository but will continue this investigation if no better 
>> line of enquiry shows up.
> 
> 
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