[Mageia-discuss] Minimal package number at first install
Buchan Milne
bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Fri Sep 2 10:18:55 CEST 2011
On Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:19:27 Xuo wrote:
> Le 31/08/2011 22:32, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> > Op woensdag 31 augustus 2011 21:06:05 schreef Xuo:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've just installed mageia-1 with the minimal number of packages
> >> (without urpmi) as it is possible to select during install.
> >> Then the required disk space used is about 660Mb !!
> >> I am not a specialist, but isn't it possible to have a "real" minimal
> >> number of packages installed ? For example, FreeNas is about 100Mb
> >> large. I can give the list of the installed packages but I don't know
> >> which ones I could remove (if it is possible to remove any of them).
> >>
> >> For me, the minimal list should be :
> >> * kernel
> >> * main commands (ls, mkdir, ...) + rpm (+urpmi for non-specialists !!)
> >> * ssh + nfs network
> >>
> >> Then I could add all packages I want, one by one.
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> Xuo.
> >
> > yes, --no-suggests does remove alot of packages, but it's still too much,
> > personally i plan to work on this, to make it smaller, but i've having
> > some other priorities first...
>
> Hi,
>
> What I did is :
> urpmi_rpm-find-leaves
> then :
> urpme of all packages except basesystem, urpmi, openssh-server, msec,
> locales-fr, and tcsh (I found this in a Mandriva forum).
> The disk space is still of about 450Mb (better than the initial 660Mb).
> When I add samba-server and samba-client, it increases up to 550Mb.
> When I add msec-gui, it goes up to 650Mb.
YOu may want to look at the relevant bug reports, e.g.:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609
Regards,
Buchan
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