Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

[George Prowse]

On 12/12/05, Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@×××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> George Prowse wrote:
>
> > After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to
> > reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after
> > any baselayout upgrade had been applied.
>
> Isn't that what the stages are, Barebone systems?


yes but if you extracted a stage on to an already built system you would not
only have the the mess there that you wanted to get rid of but also all your
config files would revert back to older versions and you'd lose any changes
made.

> This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system
> > after a library malfunction and also if a person wanted to switch from
> > 100% gtk to 100% qt or vice-versa.
> >
> > At present we have depclean to reduce anything past xorg-x11 but that
> > doesn't get as far as anything that doesn't rely on a package being
> > able to depend on an GUI, libraries need to be brought in and all but
> > baselayout needs to be cleaned out so a "bare bone" is left.
>
> Why not just move world out of the way and then emerge what you want to
> keep/install then emerge depclean the rest (although this could easily
> fubar a system if they do it blindly removing important system packages)


because i'd rather not use depclean but also depclean doesn't get rid of the
configs left by any packages, for instance: if i had xfce on my system
before and i did  emerge -C xorg-x11 && emerge depclean xfce would be wiped
off but if i emerged xfce again there would still be modified parts that
would use the options i selected on the previous version.

George