On Friday 09 February 2007 23:24, Axel Thimm wrote: > > Maybe we need a minimal assumed runtime environment just like we > define a minimal assumed build evironment? The definition of such a > beast would be the minimal set of packages that are needed to do > anything sensible, for example everything that is pulled in by > redhat-lsb (which includes coreutils). redhat-lsb is far from being a suitable package for this. As an example, here's what "yum install redhat-lsb" would do to my very sensibly working, although admittedly quite trimmed down PVR running FC6: ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: redhat-lsb i386 3.1-11 core 21 k Installing for dependencies: at i386 3.1.8-84.fc6 updates 55 k bc i386 1.06-21 core 106 k binutils i386 2.17.50.0.6-2.fc6 updates 2.9 M cairo i386 1.2.6-1.fc6 updates 406 k cups i386 1:1.2.7-1.8.fc6 updates 2.8 M cups-libs i386 1:1.2.7-1.8.fc6 updates 181 k dbus i386 1.0.1-9.fc6 updates 471 k ed i386 0.3-0.fc6 updates 54 k file i386 4.19-1.fc6 updates 357 k gettext i386 0.14.6-4.fc6 updates 1.4 M gnutls i386 1.4.1-2 core 349 k groff i386 1.18.1.1-11.1 core 1.9 M libXft i386 2.1.10-1.1 core 44 k libXi i386 1.0.1-3.1 core 25 k libXrender i386 0.9.1-3.1 core 27 k libXt i386 1.0.2-3.1.fc6 core 174 k libxml2-python i386 2.6.27-1.FC6 updates 705 k m4 i386 1.4.5-4 updates 133 k make i386 1:3.81-1.1 core 465 k man i386 1.6d-2.fc6 updates 263 k pango i386 1.14.8-1.fc6 updates 330 k paps i386 0.6.6-17.fc6 updates 32 k patch i386 2.5.4-29.2.2 core 64 k pax i386 3.4-1.2.2 core 63 k time i386 1.7-27.2.2 core 17 k tmpwatch i386 2.9.7-1.1 core 18 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 27 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
