Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes: > Question. How many files can a directory contain? What filesystem? ext2? iso? I just created a directory with 10000 files and successfully run mkisoimg on it. So both of those filesystems should have no problem in with a few thousand files. > With no exclusion list, but with full depencency checking, the Hurd CDs > now have ~1 gig of packages. There may be problems in identifying what > can be excluded to halve this. Hmm, I count 1652 Architecture: all packages in Debian. Classifying them all into linux-all vs. really-all will be some work. Maybe you should start applying some heuristics. A few from the top of my head: * If a package depends on perl (python, etc) it's a portable script and should be included * If a package is named FOO-dev or FOO-doc, include iff FOO exists. * Everything else in section doc should be included. * "linux" in the package name does not bode well for portability. etc. I'm sure there are many more "rules". Maybe maintaining a repository of those has a better gain/effort ratio than maintaining an exclusion list. -- Robbe
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