Re: looking over base -- pkgs to remove from it
bug1 <bug1@netconnect.com.au> writes:
> 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?
For one, it has to do with the underlying design of potato
boot-floppies, and that's way too late to change for potato. For
woody, all bets are off.
For two, in fact, not much of the stuff in root.bin is duplicated in
base. root.bin uses busybox for many programs rather than the actual
stuff from actual pacakges, i.e., it has it's own init etc etc.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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