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Hi guys, I talked with my friend Zac Medico and your @system is mostly here : |
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/usr/portage/profiles/base |
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Have fun :P |
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From: d2_racing@×××××××.com |
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To: zmedico@g.o |
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Subject: FW: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'? |
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:22:32 +0000 |
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Hi Zac, can you reply to the gentoo-amd64@l.g.o and close that thread :P |
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Thanks |
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Salut |
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alp |
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> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:44:36 -0800 |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'? |
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> From: markknecht@×××××.com |
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> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman |
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> >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>>> I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of |
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> >>>> packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a |
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> >>>> mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days |
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> >>>> as it wants to emerge 242 packages. One major contributor is not using |
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> >>>> a global -cups use flag in make.conf which would reduce it to 178. |
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> >>>> That was added to figure out why Gnome didn't see Sups printers at |
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> >>>> all. Sure, I would then have to turn on cups for certain packages but |
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> >>>> that's OK with me. However I still see cairo, icedtea-bin, virtual |
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> >>>> java stuff, alsa-libs, and a bunch of x11-proto files so it doesn't |
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> >>>> feel like @system stuff to me |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> 1) Where is the 'system' or '@system' specification on my machine? |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> 2) If you folks run emerge -epv @system then how machine packages do you see? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I believe it all depends on the profile you're using. If you're using |
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> >>> a desktop profile maybe that's why it's calling in GUI toolkits and |
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> >>> stuff... |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks Paul. I hadn't thought of that and I think you're correct. I |
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> >> played a bit with changing profiles and then looking at what emerge |
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> >> -epv @system would or would not do. It's clearly related. |
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> >> In the end I wonder if this is a lost cause? If the packages I run |
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> >> really require these flags then they are all going to get built the |
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> >> same way. I'd prefer that @system was simple and that @world showed |
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> >> how I had changed the system to meet my needs, but I'm not sure it's |
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> >> worth the effort at this point to get there. |
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> > |
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> > Looking in the current desktop profile, it shows this: |
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> > USE="a52 aac acpi alsa branding cairo cdr dbus dts dvd dvdr eds emboss |
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> > encode evo fam firefox flac gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde |
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> > ldap libnotify mad mikmod mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pdf png ppds |
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> > qt3support qt4 quicktime sdl spell svg thunar tiff truetype vorbis |
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> > win32codecs unicode usb X x264 xml xulrunner xv xvid" |
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> > So support for things like gnome, gtk, kde and qt4 are there by |
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> > default. I guess you could take the above list, put a - in front of |
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> > the ones you don't think you want and put it in make.conf and see what |
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> > happens. :) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> Yeah, that's interesting and to some extent anyway probably involved |
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> with why I'm getting a lot of the package I get. What I'm not |
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> understanding yet is what packages themselves are in @system. Where do |
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> those come from? I'm assuming that because of all these flags some |
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> system packages then require more and more support packages as an |
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> avalance, but I'm not understanding what list of packages gets the |
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> whole things started. |
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> @world is /var/lib/portage/world. |
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> @system is ? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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