Quote Originally Posted by Capricorny View Post
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.
Sounds good, could be done with some checkboxes where the user could decide what to keep and what to remove. Also with some requirement system beetween the different checkboxes. For example the checkbox "office software (libreoffice...)" requires the "basic graphical environment" checkbox. There is also some basic handling for various Knoppix versions in the script already so the selection of software to remove and to keep could be different for different Knoppix versions. I will see what I can do but I think I would need some help .