[elbe-users] diet and removing dpkg

[Goldschmidt Simon]

Hi,

We're trying to build a tiny system using the diet mode. Unfortunately,
some packages reference dpkg and perl-base (e.g. e2fsprogs), which makes
the image kind of big (we're at ~33Mbyte unzipped).

Now I tried to <purge> dpkg and perl-base during finetuning, but that
didn't work: even calling
  'dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential dpkg perl-base'
via <command> doesn't work as dpkg says '/var/lib/dpkg/status' is missing.

Any idea of how we could uninstall such essential packets without keeping
a list an using 'rm'?

Thanks,
Simon