Re: Essential packages (Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx)

2002-06-18 Thread Magnus Ekdahl
microdists) 5. If you find a executable packer for arm, you will reduce the size of the executables by ~50% 6. In some cases you will find assembler variants of programs that will reduce the size even further. For Zaurus it might be sufficient with only 1 and 2. But if we want to make debian scale

Re: Essential packages (Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx)

2002-06-17 Thread Magnus Ekdahl
tils, textutils, util-linux, fileutils Installed-Size: 7688k the reduction in size is ~95%, and I think 7330k is worth the effort. And thats only what I can do. I think that the 14 debian essential maintainers can do a lot better. They have indepth knowledge on their packages and probably know som

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Magnus Ekdahl
> perl-base > hostname > diff > bash > login > debianutils > sysvinit > mount > tar > sed > base-passwd -- Magnus Ekdahl 0739-287181 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] public key available at http://oxtan.campus.luth.se/magnus.public ftp://ftp.se.debian.o

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Magnus Ekdahl
o declare a dependency on a package that is essential. Which could mean that the zaurus port would be plagued with unsatisfied dependencies. Btw, I'm totally for reducing the number of unnecessary programs that is currently essential. -- Magnus Ekdahl 0739-287181 [EMAIL PROTECTED]