[mythtv-users] Minimizing a Distribution

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I am in the process of booting MythTV on a Mini-ITX with Compact Flash boot
drive.

I have Linux in about 20 MB (with ssh/nfs and a whole bunch of other stuff).
I have X in about another 30 MB (probably much less with a cramfs). 

Boot time is really fast.

The only problem I have had is minimizing QT and MySQL, they are both 
nasty disk size pigs.  QT does something funky stuff loading the MySQL 
libraries.

The last error I am able to debug is a relocation error on a MySQL library
(I assume from QT).

Has anyone seen this error?  Or better yet has anyone tried to minimize
a distribution, so I don't have to re-invent the wheel.

Second question, is MySQL really necessary?  I really question the need
for a database with today's processor.  The bloat of code vs the "time
savings".  With work projects, I always wonder if a flat text file isn't
sufficent (hell we aren't cataloging Walmart's inventory).

Thanks for any pointers