[gentoo-server] Binary packages without development files

[Mike Culbertson]

Does anyone know of an existing way in which to not include development 
related files in binary package builds, so as to generate packages that would 
be more apprpriate for a server?

Case in point, I have an NFS server that neither builds it's own packages nor 
does it have any use for any headers or static libraries (or even gcc for 
that matter).  I can manually remove stuff from /usr/include, /usr/lib/*.a, 
etc but next round of upgrades and all the dev related files would be back, 
so it would be very handy to generate packages that did not have the files to 
begin with.

From what I've seen, I have a few current options:

1) custom ebuilds - this would be a bit of a management nightmare
2) system imager - in progress, but I would rather have the control at the 
package level since the "golden client" would still need to be fixed.
3) scripts that clean files after package installs - again, it would be nice 
not to have any files to clean rather than to delete them after the fact.

Any of these is do-able in one context or another, but they still remain as a 
way to override what is installed with a package, rather than remedying the 
package itself.

Does anyone have something more elegant or perhaps know of tools that can 
control the contents of a binary package without having to manually manage 
the ebuild?

TIA

Mike Culbertson