Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi@××××××.lv>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] reducing size of X
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:06:49
Message-Id: 474C796E.5010608@mebius.lv
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] reducing size of X by Marc Blumentritt
1 Marc Blumentritt wrote:
2 > I have to use X for my application (vdr), but X (and dependencies) take
3 > a lot of space, which I want to reduce. Most of it can be found under
4 ...
5 > Now I'm wondering, if I really need all this stuff. At the moment I plan
6 > to run an English system, perhaps adding German, both unicode. I do not
7 > need fancy X fonts for vdr. Do you have any suggestions, what I can
8 > delete and what I should keep?
9
10 The nice trick is to run you application(s) under
11 strace -e file -o trace.log -f cmd..
12 for some time and see what is really used. Prepare the list of files from the
13 log and copy them to the target image. Additional research is needed in case
14 files are opened via relative path.
15 Works for me. Not very Gentoo-ish though.
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