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Offline dicorer

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the web browser!
« on: April 16, 2015, 01:25:57 AM »
if anybody were still wandering, is it possible to make something really lightweight with those debs... yes, now you can :)
Unfortunately I got an issue with the web browser, the sce comes out way too big.
I say too big, because the other sce are not:
- xorg vesa+fluxbox= 18 MB
- alsa full= 5 MB
- pcmanfm+leafpad=6MB
- apache2+php=7 MB
- gcc complete env=33 MB
- web browser,xxxterm=51 MB (!!!)

every sce is without redundant debs (all depend each other) and without useless debs (striped away with no mercy)

Did anybody found a lighter web browser, deb packed, with javascript+ssl?
Thanks :)

Offline curaga

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2015, 01:33:05 AM »
Sadly Fifth is not deb-packed anywhere, but you can use Opera 12.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2015, 02:12:48 AM »
ok, where I get the pack for opera12?
opera12 is deb packed?

I dont need a fully featured webbrowser.
I need something like dillo+javascript! :)
« Last Edit: April 16, 2015, 02:15:42 AM by dicorer »

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2015, 03:31:23 AM »
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

Offline dicorer

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2015, 05:16:51 AM »
got it, thanks, they give a standard deb pack.
unfortunately the pack is outside ubuntu repo.
so I had to do another ugly hack to feed that file to sce-import... had to rename the opera deb into an existing deb I already had, modify the line inside the Index file with right size and md5 checksum, the -p option doesn't work at first run, so after sce-import said ok, I quickly copied the hacked Index on it, and so on...
It worked, but I didn't like it  ::)

would suggest another mod, to allow easy merging for external debs too

Offline Jason W

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2015, 05:45:27 AM »
Fifth is not only not deb packed, it can't be built on even Debian Sid as it needs newer libraries.  I point this out in case anyone attempts to build it on dCore.

Things do not have to be already in a Debian repo or Debian licence compatible.  If it can be redistributed, it can be built and hosted.  Package requests for dCore are welcome, there is a thread for that:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,18185.0.html
« Last Edit: April 18, 2015, 05:49:58 AM by Jason W »

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2015, 06:13:52 AM »
dicorer,
Have you tried the sce-import -d option, to use existing SCEs as dependencies of one another to save space?

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Re: the web browser!
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2015, 01:13:49 AM »
of course I tried, once ;)
It didn't meet my requirements, so I took the liberty to *expand* it.
Instead of -d, I use 3 new options: no-dependencies, deb-exclude and deb-extern.

forgot to add: while Im checking into init and sce scripts, Im digging out more undocumented cmdline options and JUICY features... I would have made use of them earlier, if I knew they existed... ;)
« Last Edit: April 19, 2015, 01:38:29 AM by dicorer »