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On T, 2008-07-01 at 11:33 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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> Duncan a écrit : |
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> > Probably others than GNOME, too. |
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> Thus Mart's effort to bring it to gentoo-dev :) |
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And for constructive discussing of it, including with releng and other |
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teams. |
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> > This is the ticklish bit, but there's still a way around it for users |
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> > (such as those trying to fit GNOME on a liveCD) that need it. Useing |
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> > portage's bashrc, setup a conditional that excepts packages that need |
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> > static libs and set INSTALL_MASK='*.a' for everything else. |
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> No, it was pointed out that this cannot be done for LiveCD material, as |
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> the packages would have a different content as a regular install. So |
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> this is just out of the question. |
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> For those wondering : "find /usr/lib64 -name "*.a" | xargs du -ch" will |
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> tell you how much disk space is wasted by static libraries. |
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> On my Gnome box, this is 246M. I know we won't be able to bring this to |
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> 0, but having it closer to 10~20M is a very worthy goal imho. |
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In addition I'm looking for a clean solution, not every Gentoo user |
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having to have a INSTALL_MASK set with a few exceptions that they don't |
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know; and if they don't know what are the exceptions, they'll have |
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trivial problems like bash not working, iirc. |
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Btw, just to be clear, I'm not claiming this is the sole reason GNOME |
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doesn't fit on LiveCD's anymore, but it is a big contributor for that. |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: leio@g.o |
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Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio |
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