Subject: Re: [vserver] Mix and match guest distributions
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:31:14 +0200 (CEST)

Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Michael S. Zick wrote:
>> On Thu April 14 2011, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>>> Adrian Reyer wrote:
>
> <snip />
>>
>> A kernel + a minimal build of busybox should fill that bill.
>> A common add-on to "minimal" is an application providing sshd (often DropBear).
>>
>> Unless your definition of "minimal host" includes KDE or other GUI. ;-)
>
> No way!  I'm trying to reduce a CentOS 5 install and having a heck of a
> time with the dependences.  GConf seems to require X stuff and on and on.

Why do you need GConf? yum remove is your friend, you can get rid of a
lot of crap by yum remove libX11...

> The other stuff I like and kind of need is Perl so I can run Fcheck and
> a few other custom monitoring/reporting scripts.
>
> I'll look at Busybox.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rod

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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson