creating very minimal ISO - how to list and remove packages
I'm using Peppermint 10 Respin because Peppermint 9 has proven to work very well on the 12 first generation Intel Compute Sticks I have and I've been using that OS over a year. However I created the image used for them manually without using any tool, and I didn't do that great a job. So I found out about Cubic and hoping to do a much better job with that.
I'm trying to find a way to list all the packages in Peppermint 10 Respin and need to know how to delete all the packages I don't want included in the ISO. The only thing I'm adding is TeamViewer and MPrime, but I intend to remove a lot of packages and try to reduce to a bare minimum the packages included and what loads at startup. The only things I really need are the desktop GUI, an editor, file manager, and TeamViewer, plus an app called MPrime used for factoring primes that runs at the command line. I don't need for instance any internet browsers, media players of any kind, office apps of any kind. My goal is to slim down as much as possible on the space taken up on the 8GB eMMC and 1GB of RAM. I would like to get the image to be 10-20% smaller than what I have now, which seems a modest goal.
I would also like to know how to control what loads at start up (like the equivalent of Windows start up) to get that down to a bare minimum.
Hardware on this thing that needs to have drivers loaded is just HDMI, wifi and USB. I have disabled Bluetooth and SD storage.
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