On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Dan Trainor wrote:
I know I whined and complained a lot about it, but i've finally got the
process of completely re-mastering the install, down perfectly.
I go as far as editing comps.xml, and adding/removing packages from
@base and @core, so I do not have to speficy any additional packages or
package groups.
Not really necessary.
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/
"The design criteria in deciding if a given package was necesssary, was:
May it be removed without violating a dependency requirement? The code
performs this test repeatedly until no additional single package may be
removed.
With that effort, we get a CentOS 4[.0] install down to 349 Meg. Six
months after the initial release of this document, we added detail for a
fully updated CentOS 4.2 system. As of 27 October 2005, such an install
weighs in at 376 Meg. (376,024). The first figure in the 4.2 listing was
pre-update; the second, post."
With props to Russ Herrold, of course.