m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk (M A Young) writes:
[... minimal FC1 installation ...]
The absolute minimum presumably consists of a handful of key packages
(such as kernel, glibc, initscripts) plus any dependent packages, which
prbably comes to 2-300 Mb, though this may be too minimal to do anything
with.
The Absolute (non-empty) minimum are 6 packages (glibc, glibc-common,
tzdata, basesystem, filesystem, setup). The next step are 56 packages[1]
which are needing 71 MiB (installed languages: C,de,en,es,fr); an oldish
deptree of them is available at
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/rpmDirectoryCheck/results/rpm.png
Then, adding the kernel + its deps, you will end in 63 packages which
are taking 104 MiB. There is a potential to reduce this numbers by
omitting all non-C languages, but rpm has a bug[2] which prevents this.
Numbers are valid for Fedora Core 1 + current updates.
Enrico
Footnotes:
[1] based on the apt rpmpriority file available at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/util-vserver/util-vserver/dist...
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108686