Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Jakub Ladman <ladmanj@×××××.cz>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] lite package manager for gentoo embedded target
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:04:34
Message-Id: 201012171229.17824.ladmanj@volny.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] lite package manager for gentoo embedded target by Mike Frysinger
1 Hello
2
3 In my embedded system,the goal is small disk usage, so up to now i have been
4 using qtbz2 -t and then manualy removing documentation, man pages, header
5 files and static libraries.
6 So i will be glad if a new system will be configurable to filter it
7 appropriately.
8
9 Thanks
10
11 Jakub
12
13 Dne čtvrtek 16 Prosinec 2010 18:17:48 Mike Frysinger napsal(a):
14 > On Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:44:20 Kfir Lavi wrote:
15 > > What was the aim of creating portage-utils?
16 >
17 > goals:
18 > - small
19 > - fast
20 > - little to no dependencies
21 > - should require only modern C compiler & library
22 > - support binary packages
23 > - fully compatible with official Gentoo PM (i.e. portage
24 > - have fun
25 >
26 > basically we deem python and friends to be way too heavy for embedded
27 > systems where most of the time you just want to install/update binary
28 > packages. there is no desire at all to have portage-utils build packages
29 > from source. -mike

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