What do you think is the minimum number of packages needed for a Linux Install

[BaVinic]

Kind of a long topic :)

What are the absolute minimum packages needed, to install a working Linux Distro?

Here what I want it to do.

I want CLI (of course) X and KDE 3.2.x (of course the base linux system as well)

really nothing else.

I know each package has it depends. that is not what i mean, I need to know what packages outside of the above would be required to be able to boot a computer?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

BaVinic

[hard candy]

From the kernel-mailing list from a "bwkaz" type of knowledgable soul:
For absolute minimum you may take kernel +
> shell + ld.so + needed libraries (or make the shell static) and boot with
> init=/bin/sh. For minimal system you will want init/getty/login + normal
> utilities (cp/mv/rm/dd/cat/sort/grep/sed/awk/uniq/join/cut/chmod/chown/ls/
> df/kill/mkdir/mknod/rmdir/mount/umount/kill/sleep/su/ed/fsck/mkfs/find/ps -
> see man[18] from v7 for more or less standard list), most likely some
> editor beyond ed (nvi is fine), at and cron, make, gcc and binutils if you
> want to compile anything, gzip and tar for dealing with archives (actually
> in standard set, except that gzip supercedes compress). man and manpages,
> indeed, thus groff to format said manpages. Considering the strange GNU
> attitude towards manpages you may have to install info. To compile GNU
> packages you may need autoconf perversion (if you don't want to edit large
> chunks of Makefiles). That's more or less enough to work comfortably on a
> stand-alone box with no access to net. If you want to use net - take
> ifconfig/route/bind/ping/traceroute and add ftp, telnet and lynx. For
> email stuff - mailx and {sendmail|qmail|whatever MTA you fancy}. You may
> need inetd at this point.
It seems the more you have, there's always one more package to add a little more function. :)

[BaVinic]

thank you HC, that is exactly what i was looking for. :)


BaVinic