[Mageia-discuss] Minimal package number at first install

Fri Sep 2 10:22:10 CEST 2011

On Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:27:18 Xuo wrote:
+> Le 01/09/2011 20:06, Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:06:05PM +0200, Xuo wrote:
+> >> I've just installed mageia-1 with the minimal number of packages
+> >> (without urpmi) as it is possible to select during install.
+> > 
+> > Could purely for of my curiosity, what do you use Mageia for that you
+> > want as little disk space usage as possible?
+
+Note that virtualised environments also benefit from small footprints, where 
+the number of VMs is normally limited by memory and disk space (unless one has 
+the luxury of large and fast SAN).
+
+
+> I just want to have a server for nfs shares, music shares, ssh
+> connections, web server, roundcube mail server, ftp server, ...
+> I agree that now a days, 660Mb of disk space is not a problem (and it is
+> not really for me, except that I'll have to format my root partition
+> because /usr/share size really increases).
+> My question is just a question of principle. Why use 660Mb when less
+> could be enough ? As I said, Freenas is about 100Mb
+
+Are they using an old version of samba? Modern (3.3 and later I think) are 
+quite big, and the various samba utilities, many of which should be required, 
+come to very close to 100MB ...
+
+> and it is based on
+> Debian. I think it could be possible to achieve something like this
+> (without the drakxtools).
+
+AFAIK, impossible to get under 100MB, unless we ship old, unsupported versions 
+of samba with known vulnerabilities.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+