On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:05, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> But a) it's a pain in the $W#%@ to get 
> the distro pared down to the point where the "X" libraries and associate 
> bloat aren't needed on your hard drive, and b) the system is a pain in the 
> #$@%@ to manage once you get it pared to that point. 

I agree...paring down a Big distro to fit a _smaller_ niche need is a
pain and hardly worth doing. When fitting linux onto our single board
computers, my target point was down near 10 MB. I didn't even try
pairing down my desktop; instead i went with LinuxFromScratch; that
scaled very nicely. 

Though, i wouldn't put LFS onto my desktop. I have more important things
to do with my time than upkeep that, and i can save that time by using
(insert your big name distro of choice here).