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Sub-Zero

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Registered: 2011-01-25

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Archiso - Best packages.list

Hello everyone,
I'm new to Arch and I'm new to this forum ... First of all sorry for my poor English ..
Now the question, I'm working on a LiveCD / USB Arch (with Archiso " distro " foremergencies( such SystemRescueCd ).
After several days of work have come to a good result and customizing overlays and packages.list. Unfortunately, the final size far exceeds expectations (about 400Mb), in fact we got to about 800MB. I wanted to know if there is some way to optimize the list of packages, the rest of what I need is a minimal environment (including the desktop environment xfce because I had to bet I feel light enough) to perform various operations recovery (eg, testdisk, gparted, partimage, net tests, etc. ..).

Here packages.list I used:

aufs2
aufs2-util
base
bash
coreutils
cpio
dnsutils
file
fuse
kernel26
syslinux
nano
vim
git
xfce4
mc
wvdial
openssh
openssl
samba
ssmtp
awk
grep
sed
apache
php
php-apache
mysql
partimage
tar
p7zip
ntfs-3g
ntfsprogs
xorg
firefox
firefox-i18n
screen
rsync
gparted
rdesktop
gnu-netcat
testdisk
ddrescue
inetutils
gamin
subversion
xorg-fonts-75dpi
xorg-fonts-100dpi
xorg-fonts-misc
fdupes
usbutils
libusb
nmap
skype
pidgin
fsarchiver
arj
gnupg
chkrootkit
minicom
putty
curl
lshw
dmraid
lvm2
dosfstools
wipe
extundelete
progsreiserfs
sshfs
xf86-input-evdev
xf86-input-mouse
xf86-input-keyboard
xf86-input-synaptics
xf86-video-apm
xf86-video-ast
xf86-video-ati
xf86-video-cirrus
xf86-video-dummy
xf86-video-intel
xf86-video-nv
xf86-video-vesa
xf86-video-sisusb
xf86-video-vmware
xf86-video-s3
xf86-video-tdfx
xf86-video-sis
nfs-utils
expect
tcpdump
ffmpeg
ffmpeg2theora
colordiff
zip
unzip
mt-st
xfwm4
gtk
bluez
blueman
usbmuxd
networkmanager
dnsmasq
modemmanager
dhclient
dbus

Thank's
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Dennis

Mr Green

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Re: Archiso - Best packages.list

Please add code tags to your post

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chris-kun

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Registered: 2010-09-07

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Re: Archiso - Best packages.list

If you want to reduce the size, take out packages you don't want. simple. don't ask us

edit: use pacman -Qi to see installed size of packages

Last edited by chris-kun (2011-01-25 19:57:30)

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Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Archiso - Best packages.list

why not simply use the Arch Live CD/USB itself?

you get pacman and all the necessary software which would then enable you to download and install and fix your system in case of "emergencies"

and as Mr Green mentioned, please use [code ] [/code ] tags around your list.

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