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On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:10 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:01 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Another USE flag that I'm pleased with is "minimal." It disables |
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> > building all of the sample clients, all of the fonts and many of the |
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> > drivers. A test install using this was 28MB, compared to 100MB-150MB for |
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> > a full-featured install. |
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> Please expound on the "many" of "many of the drivers" for us or point us |
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> to a location that describes exactly what this removes. I'm curious, |
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> because I am currently using "minimal" on LiveCD builds due to its |
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> impact on vim, but I probably will not want it on xorg-x11 if it could |
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> possibly break systems or leave out functionality that others will want, |
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> which means I will have to work around this. |
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OK, here's some more info on minimal, pulled straight from searching the |
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ebuild for occurrences of "minimal": |
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1. No fonts. None. Zero. This means X always dies with "Can't find font |
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fixed" unless you provide your own. This could potentially be changed if |
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I find a way to just build the "misc" fonts. |
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2. None of Tad's fancy cursors |
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3. No clients. This includes xfs, xdm and xkbcomp. |
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4. Nothing in /usr/share/doc |
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5. No Xnest or Xvfb |
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6. Input drivers limited to mouse and keyboard. Nothing fancy like |
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aiptek or wacom. |
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7. For x86 only, remove these video drivers: nsc, glint, tga, s3, |
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s3virge, rendition, neomagic, i740, cirrus, tseng, trident, chips, apm, |
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ark, cyrix, siliconmotion. I wasn't sure what was safe for other archs |
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and didn't want to play around without some more research. |
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Of those, the only questionable ones to me are s3, s3virge and |
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especially siliconmotion. I could see the latter being popular on |
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systems that would otherwise use the "minimal" flag. |
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8. No man pages |