Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 needs testers

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:21:51 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
| On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:39 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Ick. I'd be inclined to not use minimal vim for livecds, it's
| > *really* stripped down...  What're the deps pulled in by non-minimal
| > vim that you don't like?
| 
| I honestly have not researched it very far other than to find that vim
| (and vim-core) using USE="livecd minimal" came out with a LiveCD that
| was nearly 10MB smaller (after squashfs).  Considering the entire x86
| minimal LiveCD is 50MB, that is a very significant savings.

Hm, I suspect it's the livecd USE flag on vim-core that's doing most of
that... Built as:

[   R   ] =app-editors/vim-7.0_alpha20040924  -acl -cscope -debug
-gpm -minimal -mzscheme +ncurses -nls -perl -python -ruby (-selinux)
-tcltk -vim-with-x 0 kB [1]

which includes proper terminal support, vim comes to about a meg on the
system I'm on right now. With minimal turned on it comes to just over
400KBytes. vim-core built normally is about eleven megs across a
thousand or so files, built with USE="livecd -nls" it's one meg and ~200
files (and I could probably nuke a hundred or so of those, if you don't
mind upsetting people who want to use straaange keymaps).

So, if half a meg (assuming you already have ncurses) isn't too high a
price for decent terminal (terminfo rather than termcap) support, you
might not necessarily be best with the minimal USE flag turned on (I'm
guessing catalyst still doesn't do per-package USE flags easily?).

[ Disclaimer: measured using my experimental vim7 ebuilds which won't be
in the tree until at least 65216 and 66762 are closed, so don't even
think about asking, mkay? vim6 should be fairly similar though... ]

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