i think the way to go about things would be to try out linux portable apps and maybe wine stuff first--more or less will leave your core setup tiny, and you may get away with not really having to hunt down many libs or deps at all.fitch wrote:howdee rufwoof,
just got back to this again... burned-iso, loaded-up first-boot and started to look-around... made some notes about the process and rereading the thread... had some questions (similar to puppus-dogfellow) about whether this is ready-for-primetime...
i'm not sure if the version i mirrored is the tahr kernel or the slacko kernel, but i think that would determine your devx and kernel sources choices--compiling things yourself would i guess produce the trimmest base system, but if you (not me as i have little clue about such things) get a pet or sfs that initially fails but works with some found dependencies, you could repackage that all together as a stand alone in either format (check the utilities section for don570's right click utility and other tools for this sort of thing--if you can do this sort of stuff through the terminal or can manually put together an sfs or pet, you're already ahead of me in this regard and i'll host whatever packages you make). when i crack open the pets and sfs files they usually look like copies of some system folders--i guess the sfses work by floating around in some virtual space until needed, then those become part of the system, but in a way that doesn't break or interfere with anything else. it seems almost as self contained as the wine stuff (mixxx 1.11 in wine is one click; debian packages--i gave up. if the one for precise didn't work at first, grab the deps you used, put it all in a folder, right click it into a barebone pet or sfs...) and the portable apps stuff (here's a link to some: http://portablelinuxapps.org/ ). i'd also be on the hunt for things that just ran out of their own folders like firefox does.
hth
