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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:27:43AM +0100, Robert Schrem wrote:
> > Currently about 200MB with lots of package-docs, and the
> > development tools, but if you unmerge
> > all sys-devel packages beside the c++-libs and spython remove
> > /usr/doc and /usr/src and all the static libs in /lib and /usr/lib
> > you only need about 130MB and still have
> > a runable system.
>
> Hmmm, wouldn't it be nice to have a gentoo system that can
> boot from an 128 MB FlashDisk? There are som with PCMCIA
> interface... No more noisy hard disk technologiy from the
> last century ... :) Porbably a nice gift for my mom next christmas
> for surfing on the internet with seat belts on... :)
Creating a tiny libc build may be something we do after 1.0 is
released. However, it may be best to simply create a new CVS tree
instead of modifying our current ebuilds, since I imagine that
the two projects will be very different.
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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