On Mon, Jan 28, 2008, Peter Kalbus wrote:

> looking a little inside, i detected, that a lot is coming from db_* files
> from lib/rpm

> suprising is, that all are nearly the same size as if they have a common
> big part and same small add ons
>
> are my ideas right?
> can it be changed to save space?

Build RPM with Autoconf option --with-db-tools-integrated to merge
all db_xxx tools into a single db_tool.

> we' will use the system for an embedded system. we're know fighting for
> every byte, but 7.5 mbyte is at least critical.

You can also remove the "rpmbuild" executable as all of its
functionality is also in "rpm". Also, you can remove a dozen installed
scripts in case you don't need them...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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