New site: SlackHut
 

A list of the packages *I* consider to be the bare essential for an installation. I would say almost all of the listed are indeed required, but you could strip even a few more out of it, which does not have much sense in most cases. E.g. you could for instance opt out of installing ntp, syslogd, logrotate and iptables. Also libidn and wget if you are comfortable SCPing the packages to your machine :)

So you install the base and then download any extra needed packages for installation.


The URL is http://www.slackhut.com/.

Interesting. I hadnt thought of that.

Interesting. I did the same thing a year or two ago, but I didn't make any fancy webpage. I'm not even sure if I have the tag-files anymore either.

Are you considering to make more groups of packages that can be used? I.e. For a LAMP-server, add these packages to the base system, for minimal X-environment add these packages, etc?

Yes, that is the exact plan. I don't know how long it will take or will it at all but I sure hope so it will.

I will for sure add a hybrid .iso (can be booted from CD and USB stick) of the bare metal list soonish.

I share the same "install bare minimum, then grow as needed" philosophy :)

It's a very good list.
I had a similar one here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post3698797

I just bought a new PC specially for playing with KVM and I'll be installing a bare-minimum slackware64-13.1 in it as soon as possible.

When time permits, I'll try making a script to generate an install disk .iso like the one you'll make.

I'd be most interested in future minimum package lists you might come up with for LAMP, file-servers, mail-servers, etc...

Bookmarked :)

Feel free to edit the LQ wiki page on this topic as well.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...inimal_Install

It was 'started' and provides a good base but the X section needs a lot of work.
Additionally, the overall detailed explanations are lacking as it's just a list.

Other things that might help is finding one of those slackware mirrors that have dependency lists to help you trim packages. Some dependencies may be runtime requirements that you may not catch with the typical ldd and objdump commands.

It would be useful if you could make some tag files for various system type - lamp, xorg etc.

Very interesting in that just yesterday I downloaded and installed Zenwalk core.
Needed something small to fit on an old 6.3 gig hd. Only problem is that the hd is as slow as trying to pour molasses in wintertime Alaska :(
Got your page bookmarked.