On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, D. Jay Newman wrote:
> > But if you're in effect having an embedded system, I'd consider making your
> > own distro. All you need is a kernel, a boot loader, and an init script. And
> > probably a shell to do anything useful. And stblib.
>
> Yes, but since I'm not sure what I do and do not need, I took almost
> everything except X. I can delete things later.

I've found that if you want a particular utility, say 'locate', then you
run "ldd `which locate`" and it tells you which libraries it's referenced
to (`which ` just returns the full pathname).

Just thought I'd mention it as it's helped me a lot :)

Tim

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