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On 05/09/05, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> I have a couple of old machines I maintain and emerging and unmerging |
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> kernel sources take a while because there are so many files. Also one |
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> set of gentoo sources takes about 230MB of disk space. By removing stuff |
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> not belonging to x86 I was able to succesfully run make with 58MB/230MB |
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> removed. The stuff I removed: |
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> arch/* except i386 and x86_64 |
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> include/asm-* expect asm-generic, asm-i386 and asm-x86_64 |
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Is this safe? Various parts of the kernel have been known to pull in |
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things from outside the obvious places. I don't think the source tree |
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is intended to be used like this, so your proposal could lead to build |
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errors. Besides, does this really matter? Disk space grows on trees, |
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and with modern file systems it's not like limited inode counts are an |
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issue. |
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