-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 12:59 am, Marco Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:56, John BouAntoun wrote: > > I really want a light weight curses text editor like pico. > > No problem, I thought, just install the rpm. > > > > Then I went through all 3 cds and couldn't find the rpm for pico on > > any of them. > > and the answer was: > [imoq@home imoq]$ rpm -q --whatprovides `which pico` > pine-4.44-13 > > or, in other words, that to use a light text editor one must install a > whole MUA even it will never be used, right? (For the record, I just > discovered that it is the same on RH 7.3) > > I will start to work on RH 8.0 package lists for the RULE project > below soon. In this context, I'd like to know if people have already > noticed other cases like this, where a finer partitioning of apps and > libraries into more/differently structured RPMs would have helped > users who need to cut down on disk usage for whatever reason. See my previous post in this thread regarding "nano". Nano is used by the rule project's "slinky" installer. It's a nice, simple, small editor available as a stand-alone package. Even statically linked (against uClibc), it's smaller than pico. $ ll -h ../slinky/filesystem/usr/bin/nano - -rwxrwxr-x 1 mfratoni mfratoni 151K May 20 21:49 ../slinky/filesystem/usr/bin/nano [mfratoni@paradox miniconda-7.3]$ file ../slinky/filesystem/usr/bin/nano ../slinky/filesystem/usr/bin/nano: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped As opposed to: $ ll -h /usr/bin/pico - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 165k Jan 10 2002 /usr/bin/pico [mfratoni@enigma build_distro]$ file /usr/bin/pico /usr/bin/pico: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9qljvn/07WoAb/SsRAlcsAJ0YmPiBFm7r2Zf65wYwOWQqH4dK1QCdHlQ1 yKM2FcshH1o+z32f2ruWRPI= =l7GD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
