Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:39:46PM +0200 wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > - Specific compiler flags (-Os?) > > That one would make sense > > > - Turning off compile-time options for rarely used features > > That's going to be highly controversial
FWIW that is one thing that e2fsprogs-bf does. > > > - No documentation (not even the copyright file?) > > - Installing most-popular subsets of installed data (example: terminfo, > > keyboard definitions) > > - Finer grained splitting of binary packages (this could subsume the > > previous point) > > It does, and can be implemented by a possible dpkg feature where dpkg > can optionally not install bits of a package, which looks like a much > better approach. I wish a non-invasive approach would solve the problem. However I don't think we will arrive at the space savings we are looking for. -David
