Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 6/6/12 9:21 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> >>> (Major tangent now) My main motive for wanting to keep a very >>> lightweight base system isn't so much size on disk as image size (a >>> complete base system image). This is a somewhat important consideration >>> if you want to be easily transferring / duplicating / manipulating >>> virtual machines. >> Well you could always 'rm -rf /usr/share' >> >> and of course 'rm /usr/lib/*.a' > > Yes, removing docs and other extra files is good. As well as packaging > link-time files separately (headers, static libs), compiling with -Os, > stripping all binaries and libs, using a smaller libc (like > http://www.etalabs.net/musl/) and other smaller utilities (like busybox > or toybox). I'm doing most of those already: > https://github.com/jhuntwork/LightCube-OS and > https://github.com/jhuntwork/lightcube-bootstrap-musl
It's a neat exercise to get it as small as possible. Not very critical though when RAM is $4/G, disk is $0.50/G, and even SSDs are down to $1/G. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
