[Mageia-dev] base system size for next beta1

Fri Mar 18 08:05:45 CET 2011

Anne nicolas a écrit :
+>
+> Hi there
+>
+> We've had quite a lot of comments, proved or not, about base system
+> size. Looks like it's growing much too fast. So one job for next beta
+> would be to investigate on this:
+>
+> - check real size
+> - check deps
+> - check rpmsrate for isos
+> ...
+>
+> Comments welcome
+>
+good question
+In principle, I think it should be something required by virtually any 
+working Mageia system.
+
+I notice  that there is a "basesystem-minimal" and a "basesystem", which 
+adds requires "kernel" and "bootloader" ?!
+(Both of which seem kind of essential ;) )
+
+We should probably drop the distinction. (They are in the same source 
+task package anyway.)
+If we keep the distinction, we could make "basesystem" optional, and 
+include not-absolutely-necessary-but-almost type packages.  This would 
+make it easier to reduce "basesystem-minimal" in size.
+(We could then maybe change the names to "basesystem" and 
+"basesystem-plus" ? )
+
+At first glance, most of the requires seem pretty basic to any realistic 
+minimal Linux system.
+The only thing I notice that is optional and somewhat big is vim (some 
+20M), but some sort of editor is needed.  And it is pretty standard in 
+*nix type environments.  (Not my favorite, but even I know how to use vim.)
+We could always find an alternative, but it has to function without X.
+
+We could save a lot of space without the bootloader and the kernel, but 
+that would make it _really_ hard to get up and running :)
+
+In sum, it's not apparent how we could save much space.
+
+my (meandering) 2 cents :)
+
+-- 
+André
+