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On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:08 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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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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I'm pleased to announce that USE=minimal now actually produces something |
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usable. In fact, I'm writing this email from a USE=minimal build. The |
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full installation is 26MB. |
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Updates for the latest version: |
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1. Only a minimal cadre of fonts are built. I think a quick command can |
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show this best: |
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donnie@supernova ~ $ du -sh /usr/share/fonts/misc/ |
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188K /usr/share/fonts/misc/ |
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donnie@supernova ~ $ du -sh /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ |
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820K /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ |
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My bet is that most (if not all) of the encodings can also be removed |
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for a small additional savings. |
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This compares with a typical customized installation with |
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USE="-bitmap-fonts": |
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donnie@supernova ~ $ du -sh |
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xorg-unpacked/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1/usr/share/fonts/ |
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21M xorg-unpacked/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1/usr/share/fonts/ |
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With USE=bitmap-fonts (the default), it would be quite a bit larger. |
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2. A minimal set of clients is built -- enough to run `startx` and add |
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new fonts with. |
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3. The video drivers (on x86) have been reduced to an absolute minimum, |
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as discussed elsewhere on this thread. |
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4. USE=minimal is independent of other USE flags, so people could |
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potentially enable a minimal build plus TrueType fonts. |
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5. Where to find additional savings is unclear. Perhaps rarely used |
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extensions or libraries could be avoided. Suggestions are welcome. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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