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>> 2. Those other files don't get installed to the root filesystem on the |
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>> systems that we're talking about. |
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> I do not understand what you think I'm referring to and which files you |
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> are talking about. |
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> The way I'm thinking of a root fs is, /bin, maybe /boot, /etc, /lib* and /sbin. |
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Most junk gets installed to /usr, which is mounted on a separate |
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partition on the systems we're talking about. |
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What useless files do we install to /bin, /boot, or /sbin? |
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In /lib and /etc, some SMALL files that aren't used on every system do |
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get installed unconditionally. This is an explicit trade-off: the files |
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are SMALL by definition, and installing them unconditionally means that |
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we don't have to add a bunch of USE flags, slow down portage, and bog |
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down users with choices they don't care about. It also means that users |
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can e.g. switch between init systems or install logrotate without having |
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to rebuild @world from scratch. Since the files are SMALL, this |
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trade-off is in everyone's favor. |
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Your static libraries aren't small, and they aren't ever going to be |
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useful to anyone. There is no trade-off here. |
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>> 3. Those other files generally aren't completely useless. |
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> A number of them are in the default installation. |
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What files in the default installation are completely useless to |
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everyone? Small files that are useless to EVERYONE are not covered by |
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our existing policy, so please feel free to drop them in src_install. |
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