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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:19:33PM +0100, Marcelo Coelho wrote: |
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> >Well, I may be obnoxious but I do a stage4 with catalyst (total 200 |
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> >packages or so) and then trim it down using unmerge, empty and rm in |
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> >the spec file to suite. |
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> Well, it looks like the way to go to me too. Maybe I'll try to use |
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> binary packages in oder to avoid the unmerge process. |
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Avoid the unmerge? unmerge is used to clean out all the packages that |
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are depended upon e.g. in order to install cron, but not really |
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required just to run cron. |
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Binary packages would help here if you created fake empty binary |
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packages for the dependencies, but I think it would be less work to |
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make your own (empty) ebuilds for those packages instead, and that |
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would be so much more future proof. |
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> I thought that I would be able to install only the needed packages |
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> and dependencies only and have a system like LFS (Linux From |
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> Scratch). |
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You sure are - but not all ebuilds in portage are 100% customizeable |
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yet so for total control your own portage tree, or at least an |
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overlay, is definately the way to go. |
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//Peter |
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