Re: [gentoo-server] trim down portage directory

[Andrew Gaffney]

Tomasz Lutelmowski wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Here is one-liner which can be helpful if you want to trim down your gentoo
> installation, particulary /usr/portage directory and/or lower emerge
> --sync times / save bandwidth (requires app-portage/portage-utils):
>
> (echo -e "+ profiles**\n+ eclass**\n+ metadata*\n+ metadata/cache*\n+
> metadata/dtd**\n+ metadata/glsa**\n+ metadata/news**\n+ scripts**"; for
> f in `qlist -IC | cut -f1 -d'/' | sort | uniq | sort`; do echo "+ $f**";
> echo "+ metadata/cache/$f**"; done; echo "- */") >
> /etc/portage/rsync_excludes
>
> you need also to add this line to make.conf
>
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"

This is a bit short-sighted. Using this doesn't allow you to install any 
additional packages (unless the package and its dependencies happen to be in the 
category of a package you already have installed) and will break dep resolution 
when the dependencies change for any packages that you currently have installed.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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