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Fedora is quite bloated
Fedora is quite bloated
Posted Jul 26, 2007 14:49 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396)In reply to: Fedora is quite bloated by kjp
Parent article: Fedora's mid-life crisis
Is being a base for embedded systems or appliances a goal for Fedora? Not explicitly. Could it be? Sure. If you want to see it, you could step up and make some proposals for how it could happen.
Some of the things you mention like glibc-common are basically just rm -rf in a post-image script.
It seems sane to me to run at least D-BUS on an embedded/appliance system unless you're *really* small.
SELinux would be a recompile of a few packages probably.
Anyways, the point is unless someone steps up and takes leadership on how Fedora could evolve to serve embedded systems (and there has been a few people interested), it's not going to just magically happen.
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