On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 01:37:34PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 04:41:56PM +0300, ???????????? ???????????????????? > > wrote: > > > Split baseXY tarbail to serversXY and baseXY, this step will be optinize > > > disk usage. why the need for httpd, ldpd and other optional services for > > > desktop use case? > > > > Right, like it matters. > > > > Any package suite for desktops usage (web browser, various editors, video > > player...) totally DESTROYS the size of baseXX. > > > > Well, breaking things up would be silly. > But let's actually look at this as a real space problem. > I had a concern about a flash drive having a hardware problem, so I > installed the same snapshot onto an old 1GB flash (I have smaller ones > too). Tight fit.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_price-asc-rank?keywords=usb+flash+drive&fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A1292110011%2Cn%3A3151491%2Ck%3Ausb+flash+drive%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A1259715011%7C1259714011&qid=1465930256&sort=price-asc-rank Looking at 8GB/16GB thumb-drives, sorted by price. Starts under $2. > Everybody keeps talking about how new hardware has so much space, just > buy this or buy that. How about telling that to the genius 9 year old > who has no allowance but there is some old crappy hardware sitting > around. That's nice as a thought experiment. If he truely is a genius, he can figure out how to get a decent flash.
