Building a minimal OS image Are there tools or guidelines for slimming an OSX installation down to the minimum needed to run particular applications? I would be interested in the case both with or without the GUI layer. A tool could be something like nLite for Windows.
There are 2 apps that I can think of that might do what you want, wile it is still unclear what you want.

The first one is called the Pacifist and shows you a hierarchical (and searchable) list of every item contained therein in mavericks Installer package.

The second one is used to install customized Mavericks called UniBeast and MuliBeast.

Here are the instructions how to use that.