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On 06/30/10 06:48, Shoka wrote: |
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> Hello group, |
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> I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I |
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> need is |
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> - X11 and a Window Manager |
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> - Mozilla Firefox |
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> - Lighttpd |
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> I use Gnome at this time. |
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> du reports the following directories as the biggest directories on my |
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> system: |
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> /usr/lib 418 MB |
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> /usr/portage 1200 MB |
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> /usr/share 550 MB |
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> /usr/src 560 MB (Kernel Sources) |
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> The other directories are very small. |
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> I think, the system is quite heavy in size, isn't it? I really would |
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> like to be able to shrink it down but not loosing functionality. |
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> Now I'm looking for tips to reduce disk consumption further. I've |
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> already cleaned /usr/portage/distfiles. |
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> I read that removing the whole /usr/portage after setting up the system |
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> is not a good idea. Is that true? |
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> May be someone could recommend a better window manager (smaller in size, |
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> stable)? |
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> I really appreciate any kind of recommendation to this topic. |
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> Kind regards, |
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> André |
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If you're looking to save size in /usr/portage, you might consider |
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squashing it ( http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Squashed_Portage_Tree). |
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Portage is a few hundred thousand files IIRC and most filesystems don't |
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cope with that very well. My portage sqfs is one file about 47 MB. |
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This has the side effect of making portage lookups a lot faster, as |
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well, since it's all kept in RAM. It's a bit of work, and adds |
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complexity to kernel upgrades, but it's been worthwhile for me. |
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Also, Gnome is not a particularly minimal or light desktop |
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environment. In fact, quite the opposite. You could probably save a |
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lot of space by switching to xfce or lxde or something like that, if you |
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don't need all of the fluff in Gnome. There's also a gnome-light meta |
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that cuts out some of the extras, if you want to keep the Gnome |
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look-and-feel. I'm using xfce after a long time with Gnome and didn't |
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find the transition difficult at all. I did wind up compiling a few of |
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my gnome-specific tools (banshee, gthumb in particular) which brought in |
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some gnome libraries, but the gnome meta still offers to pull in about a |
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hundred new packages. |
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-Andy |
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