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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:31, C. Brewer wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 8:02, Vano D wrote: |
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> > The whole thing (with gpm, ncurses, links) is now 22 megs(if you dont |
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> > include gpm, nvurses and links its 3 megs less.. 19 megs for a base |
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> > system). Big for embedded but take in account that I only have made a |
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> > small change in the gentoo scripts. Apart from that change (change |
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> > agetty->getty in inittab) the rest is as it comes with baselayout. |
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> Just out of curiousity, are these uncompressed binaries? Or have you employed |
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> gzexe to lighten the size? |
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No compression. The only thing I did to them after creating the whole |
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thing was rm -Rf /usr/share/{doc,man,info,zoneinfo,terminfo} (if I |
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remember correctly). |
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But anyhow.. I am positive it can be made even smaller, by using less |
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binaries, cutting down on the baselayout or using a custom one |
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(slackware rc scripts come to mind) the reason for this is not that the |
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scripts take a lot of space, but they use some binaries and in my case |
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instead of I copy the binaries themselves I emerge the whole package the |
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binaries belong to. And course last but not least, using uglibc should |
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shrink the thing even more (but then incompatibility issues might arise |
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with some packages...) |
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Cheers, |
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Vano. |
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