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For that I'd like to have a very minimal install. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> However, I'm ending up with 580 packages, among them a lot of X11 +</I>>>><i> content, whereas I want a text base install only. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I had the same experience with Mageia 1 - the lowest I could get was +</I>>><i> somewhere in the high 500. I spent some time tinkering with that but +</I>>><i> whatever I tried, whichever package I wanted to remove, I always ended +</I>>><i> up with the removal of part of the base system. In the end I gave up +</I>>><i> (possibly due to lack of knowledge) :( +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I just checked Olivier's suggestion, ending up with some 270 packages... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Well I *know* i can do better: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> sudo chroot /users/rpmbootstrap/mageia/2/x86_64 /bin/bash +</I>><i> bash-4.2# rpm -aq | wc -l +</I>><i> 172 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That chroot is made by a tool I'm developing to create build +</I>><i> environments for multiple Linux distributions (supports Fedora, CentOS, +</I>><i> Mageia, Mandriva, OpenSuSE, debian, Ubuntu). Cf: rpmbootstrap in Mageia +</I>><i> (SVN at <A HREF="http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/rpmbootstrap">http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/rpmbootstrap</A> tar +</I>><i> at <A HREF="ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/src/rpmbootstrap-0.12.1.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/src/rpmbootstrap-0.12.1.tar.gz</A>). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The base approach is to cpio first a list of packages (the minimal one +</I>><i> which allows urpmi to work) and then reinstall them running urpmi. +</I>><i> List of packages is at: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/pb-modules/etc/pb.conf">http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/pb-modules/etc/pb.conf</A> +</I>><i> line 389/390. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So I was hoping to get near that number after all. Of course a chroot +</I>><i> doesn't require a boot loader, so all the packages brought due to the +</I>><i> install of grub are creating the extra blurb. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So I already have one mean to make it as small as possible. Now I'm +</I>><i> working on another case, where I just use auto_inst. So I'd like to be +</I>><i> able to use all the params available that could make me as near as +</I>><i> possible of 170 + grub and its deps (the real ones). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Will answer to some other mail in // +</I>><i> Bruno. +</I> +-- +LinuxCabal Asociación Civil +Ing. 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