Quote Originally Posted by maxi_king_333 View Post
There should be no compatibility problems because its more or less a copy of the original C implementation - and of course the Cloop format is very simple:

  1. Headroom (128 bytes) with a shell script for mounting
  2. Blocksize of an uncompressed block (unsigned int - network order)
  3. Number of blocks (unsigned int - network order)
  4. Offsets for the compressed blocks (unsigned long long - network order)
No chance of compatibility problems? Beautiful!

I developed this more with an windows user in mind who wants to customize his live system.
But I think it would be useful for us command line junkies too.
Sure it can be useful. And the more, the better the opportunities in the concept are used.

So you mean the script should do all these things automatic?
So the user says for example: "clean Knoppix" and the script will remove all software except the init and the other stuff?
Yes. Stripping down and then rebuilding is very often the way to go. Stripping down is about purging a lot of packages, and there could be, say, 3-5 standard selections of what to keep. Plus alternative 0: The empty selection, leaving only booting. First and most basic choice is a set of utilities, like what is implemented in current busybox. Plus networking etc. Next step up might be terminals and communications, and third step might be graphics, up to and including LXDE.