[mythtv-users] Minimizing a Distribution

[Micah Morton]

I'm voting we all get together and make a MythOS distro of linux. :) It
would be everything we want, and nothing we dont. :) Who's with me!?

--Micah


> 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
>
>
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