[MythDora] MythDora, RHEL5/CentOS, and atrpms

[Dennis Hand]

> Which are the big consumers? Otehr than the parts you really need like
> mythtv itself, of course. :)
Well even if you do a minmal install without a Window Manager your
still around 400mb if memory serves me right. Add on a Window Manager
like KDE and thrown in an extra 150mb. XfCE4 comes in at around
50-60mb which is starting to get bulky itself. We have added in of
course 4 Nvidia driver versions that quickly drive it up along with
ATI. It's really all the extra bells and whistles that we have added
in and we knew this going in. People seemed to want this and of course
if you remove it then they'll moan about it being gone so it's a loose
loose situatuion.
> One could perhaps build special packages that skip the one or other
> dependency if it isn't really needed for mythdora. I'm doing this for
> ATrpms' build system sometimes to keep the chroots small. initscripts
> and the former glibc-kernheaders had some dependency bloat, may that
> slack can be cut here, too.
That sounds like alot of work. Wonder how much space you end up saving?

Dennis