On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 15:28 -0500, Michael wrote: > > I installed Fedora Core 2 and picked the Custom installation to pick the > > least amount of packages. Upon issuing the "rpm -qa | less" command I > > see a bunch of packages which I'm not sure I need or not like "finger, ftp, > > procmail, rdate, rdist, rsh, talk, telnet" just to name a few. Has > > anyone here figured out which are the critical packages and which can be > > removed without causing any issues, ie. some fedora scripts might need them for > > some reason? > > I noticed thie minimal install wasn't very minimal too. I removed a lot of those > packages after installation without any problem. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a > list. I can probably send you a list of the packages I kept though if that'd help. > > This is pretty high on my b**** list. Couldn't we see some work done on creating a > real minimal install? The kernel, grub, bash, basic command-line utils, rpm, and > anything else required to boot into a usable system. Usable meaning that you can > logon and get a command-line and edit config files, manage basics such as users > and hardware, and install additional software as desired from rpm or tarballs. > That's it. Nothing else. Under 128MB is a must. Under 64MB would be better. You have to cut down on locales A LOT, specially on glibc. Considering the size of it, I thin it _is_ reasonable to separate the locales into groups, leving en_US (or C?) with glibc package. Rui
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