Re: looking over base -- pkgs to remove from it

[Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:50:11AM +0000 , bug1 wrote:
> 
> Is there a reason that the most of contents of the root disk is also in
> the base, on the surface this seems like unnecessary duplication, could
> the files be copied from the root disk to the install media rather than
> being copied from the base.tgz, it would save 900KB or so. Im sure this
> has been considered before, what have i overlooked?

I don't think it will be 900kB. You definitely don't want to use libc6 from
root. Most command are from busybox ...

So I don't think it's worth it.

				Petr Čech
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