<snip> > The idea is make the smallest distrib as possible to use for > performance/intallation purpose
Well you could always dump the help files etc. i guess, but wouldnt it vary what is usefull completly between every performance & installation??? And why exactly would you want to get right of "unusefull stuff" (im not really sure PD has any of that stuff)? Its not as if there is a PD imaginable right now that would be larger then what, 50 megs maybe, and thats probably a very high estimate. Are you looking to run this on an original Mac SE?
Cheers Anton