On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 08:54 -0500, 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. A few "interesting" things: . The above is installed size, download size is "only" 101MB¹. . There are a lot of small deps. . The only two "big" packages that I see which _might_ be able to be trimmed (split into smaller ones, maybe) are python-libs and cracklib-dict. . glibc-common contains locale-archive which is 100MB installed (IIRC they mmap it, so code would need to be changed ... but a simple gzip takes that to 23MB which is like ~17% savings). . For all the gory details (on download size), upstream repoquery now support --qf on the tree output. Sample version (with above packages) at: http://james.fedorapeople.org/repoquery-deptree-size.txt . Doing "install @core" is actually smaller, and less packages than the above² 8. Which makes me assume something is missing from @core. ¹ rawhide: install <above 8 packages> Install 8 Packages (+134 Dependent packages) Total download size: 101 M Installed size: 445 M ² rawhide: install @core Install 41 Packages (+129 Dependent packages) Total download size: 72 M Installed size: 323 M > Bill > > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
