Package categorization and distribution construction

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:40:56AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> On 01/19/2012 08:54 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said:
> >> Great idea, I would also love to see a clear out of the packages
> >> that aren't core/part of particular categories. MTAs in minimal
> >> would be one that comes to mind but there's lots of other
> >> examples.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'd like to clean this up. The sad thing is that even if I
> > define the minimal group as:
> > 
> > kernel dracut util-linux systemd systemd-units initscripts yum 
> > selinux-policy-targeted policycoreutils
> > 
> > it merely drops it from 524MB/186 packages to 503MB/152 packages. I
> > could make it smaller by dropping yum/rpm and dependencies, but I
> > can't in good conscience ship an *installation target* minimal
> > install that doesn't allow you to get updates or add-in packages.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
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> Any headscratchers in the list or rpms?  I just saw that
> policycoreutils had a Require for bunzip2, which it does not need.

I wrote a little graphical tool called rpmdepsize (it's in Fedora)
which may be useful.  Unfortunately it only works with a single
package, eg:

  rpmdepsize kernel

Rich.

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