On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:40:56AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/19/2012 08:54 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Peter Robinson (pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx) said: > >> Great idea, I would also love to see a clear out of the packages > >> that aren't core/part of particular categories. MTAs in minimal > >> would be one that comes to mind but there's lots of other > >> examples. > > > > Yeah, I'd like to clean this up. The sad thing is that even if I > > define the minimal group as: > > > > kernel dracut util-linux systemd systemd-units initscripts yum > > selinux-policy-targeted policycoreutils > > > > it merely drops it from 524MB/186 packages to 503MB/152 packages. I > > could make it smaller by dropping yum/rpm and dependencies, but I > > can't in good conscience ship an *installation target* minimal > > install that doesn't allow you to get updates or add-in packages. > > > > Bill > > > > > > Any headscratchers in the list or rpms? I just saw that > policycoreutils had a Require for bunzip2, which it does not need. I wrote a little graphical tool called rpmdepsize (it's in Fedora) which may be useful. Unfortunately it only works with a single package, eg: rpmdepsize kernel Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
