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drobbins@g.o wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:10:38AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > Hmm, maybe we should introduce a new USE flag to trigger build of packages with only |
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> > the really neccesary stuff. |
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> I think an easier way would be to create a "sys-strip" script which would do things like: |
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> rm -rf /usr/doc |
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> rm -rf /usr/info, |
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> etc. |
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Hmm, I would use this flag for things like |
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build glibc without support for all locales, building ncurses without c++ extension and |
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without static libs, remove |
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unneccesary binaries from util-linux... |
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But this is a post 1.0 idea and it could be combined with linking agains dietlibc or |
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possibly a shared dietlibc. |
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> I don't think many people will need this functionality, and I'd rather not |
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> complicate our existing ebuilds just to allow the creation of a 100Mb Gentoo |
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> Linux system. I just bought a 45Gb IBM hard drive for about $130 about a month |
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> ago... and there are plenty of used 2-6Gb drives that people are willing to |
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> give away these days. |
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True but linux helps us protecting our enviroment by reducing the amount of pc-scrap. :-) |
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My 486SX/25 system is still fast enogh for my DSL internet connection and running qmail. |
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(squid was terribly slow :-) ) |
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> I think reducing the footprint of Gentoo Linux *may* become a priority if we |
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> can link some things to a minimal libc, reducing the executable footprint and |
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> allowing more code to reside in the CPU cache. This is a performance issue |
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> rather than a pure storage issue, however. I'd be supportive of a special USE |
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> variable to enable a tiny libc. :) |
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Take a look at this |
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http://www.fefe.de/embutils/ |
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> Best Regards, |
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> -- |
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> Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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> President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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> Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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