Shrink archiso image by removing preinstalled packages

[hujiko]

Hello,

I created containers from the archlinux template and saw, that they are 500MB each.
For an arch image, that is pretty much.

There are a lot of packages installed, that are not needed.
For example:

cryptsetup
dhcpcd
diffutils
e2fsprogs
gawk
gzip
jfsutils
less
licenses
man-db
man-oages
mdadm
nano
netctl
perl
reiserfsprogs
...
By not installing them by default, the image would be a lot smaller.
And all users, that need those packages, can install them either manually or automatically as dependency of packages.

Would it be possible, to remove them and maybe other non-required packages from the default archlinux image?

[midirhee12]

I think we'd need to modify the default archlinux image to remove. What you're essentially asking is for a template of your own distribution based on arch. In that case, I'd start there and create a separate template.