On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:19:14AM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On 2020-04-30 03:28, James Jerkins wrote: > > This patch adds two new options to sysupgrade. The first option is for > > small box systems like an APU system that only has the base and manual sets > > installed. The second option is for headless systems without X11 like > > servers. > > I used to avoid installing the X sets and I found that even on e.g. a web > server > without X11 running. I would end up installing them in the end as certain > ports > would require them. Struggling to remember why I wanted to do it, to be > honest. > A notion from securing Linux perhaps. As Linux often runs things automatically > when they're installed and desktop distros run a lot by default. It is what is > in RAM, that is more important, which is very little by default on OpenBSD > (~60M). > > May be worth re-considering if it is worth the effort to save a fairly small > amount of space with potentially unexpected consequences? > >
Instead to make options for specifig sets how about just possible to use upgrade.conf file. That enables to set what ever sets you may want and other options also like site sets. -- Henri Järvinen
