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Donnie Berkholz schrieb: |
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> On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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>> Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible |
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>> because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of |
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>> the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, |
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>> readline, zlib, autoconf, automake and m4, perl, gnuconfig, and so |
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>> on. Those are packages that certainly would be part of any base Gentoo |
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>> system, but are those actual part of the system set of packages? I |
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>> sincerely doubt it. |
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> What is your goal? Is there something you're trying to accomplish that's |
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> impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of |
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> work, and I don't understand the benefits. |
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There are many people that don't use the development part of the system-set, they use |
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prebuild-packages or emerge with the ROOT= option. I have a set of slow pentium2 machines |
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here which boot over nfs. They will never execute gcc nor emerge, I'm using emerge with |
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ROOT= on the buildhost to update their trees. Also I'm using a server divided into many |
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vservers (linux-vserver.org), every vserver has a stage3 and only one additional package |
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to serve a purpose. If it is possible to reduce the size of the stage3 it would save |
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really much space. |
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I've tried to not use the system-set and set up a virtual called virtual/minimal-system |
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which depends on all the packages I need (no gcc or perl, only coreutils, glibc, |
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baselayout and some packages that are really needed for booting up). This is what I think |
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should be the system-set. And there would be a development-set which most people would |
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use, but don't have to. And maybe a set with packages like man, texinfo ... |
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My own minimal-system virtual was a fair amount of work, but not really usable due to the |
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missing dependencies in the system-set. Also I had huge problems while I tried updating |
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this set with "ROOT=/path/to/tree emerge -uDaN virtual/minimal-system" so I'm not using it |
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anymore. |
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I'm using gentoo for a long time now, but if there's something that can be done to reduce |
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its minimal footprint, then it would get even better :) |
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Cheers |
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Stefan |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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