Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> - Specific compiler flags (-Os?)
That one would make sense
> - Turning off compile-time options for rarely used features
That's going to be highly controversial
> - No documentation (not even the copyright file?)
> - Installing most-popular subsets of installed data (example: terminfo,
> keyboard definitions)
> - Finer grained splitting of binary packages (this could subsume the
> previous point)
It does, and can be implemented by a possible dpkg feature where dpkg
can optionally not install bits of a package, which looks like a much
better approach.
Wichert.
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