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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Lee Forrest wrote:
> > > On my fastest computer I have source code for two kernels,
> > > uclibc, busybox source code, and some collections of music
> > > (midi files, sheet music) and lots of photos. So about 1GB or
> > > even more.
> >
> > A thousand megabytes is not tiny.
>
> I'm going to defend Sindi here (not something I normally have
> to do).  Kernel sources are huge (particularly 2.4 and above).

I tried to shrink the kernel by deleting /isdn and various other things 
for which I have no hardware, and it would not compile.  I forget why. 
Perhaps someone can figure it out and shrink the kernel source for us.
I did delete all the other architectures but i386 successfully.

uclibc is about 100MB without source code for what you are compiling.  I 
deleted /uclibc/root/.ccache, with a later date than the other files, 
about 12MB - I wonder if this gets generated every time you compile 
something.

> Obviously you will need a thousand megabytes or more for a
> proper development platform.
>
> That does not obviate the fact that Sindi does run a minimal
> Linux for her day-to-day (non-developmental) activities.

> > > I did NOT add gs, just a set of 12 basic fonts from gs (I
> > > could possibly have gotten them from some place else instead
> > > but I had gs) which is needed by the pdftopbm convertor
> >
> > So pdftopbm needs gs. That's not tiny.
>
> Again I defend Sindi.  She said that she does not use gs.
> Yes, pdftopbm needs fonts.  Yes, the place she happened to
> get those fonts was from a gs package.  But that does not
> mean pdftopbm needs gs.

The config file I started with used gs fonts, far more of them then it 
ended up with.

> I would be grateful if Lee and Sindi would stop this thread
> (or at least take it off list).  It is doing none of us any
> good.

I will be happy to ignore any further posts on the subject and spend my 
time instead compiling USB/CDROM kernels for Christof instead, and trying 
to get lpr to work as 'root' so I can stop putting on 150MB of Win98 on 
computers for other people just to print with.

 Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven