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George Prowse wrote: |
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> After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to |
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> reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after |
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> any baselayout upgrade had been applied. |
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Isn't that what the stages are, Barebone systems? |
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> This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system |
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> after a library malfunction and also if a person wanted to switch from |
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> 100% gtk to 100% qt or vice-versa. |
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> At present we have depclean to reduce anything past xorg-x11 but that |
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> doesn't get as far as anything that doesn't rely on a package being |
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> able to depend on an GUI, libraries need to be brought in and all but |
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> baselayout needs to be cleaned out so a "bare bone" is left. |
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Why not just move world out of the way and then emerge what you want to |
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keep/install then emerge depclean the rest (although this could easily |
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fubar a system if they do it blindly removing important system packages) |
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> This would be useful as an arch tester because snapshots could be made |
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> of various stages and tested. |
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> George |
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Tux |
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Tux |
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