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David Haller <gentoo <at> dhaller.de> writes: |
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> >> >You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off |
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> >> then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who |
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> >> prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than using it. |
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Huh? |
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There is an entire universe of embedded devices out there. Vendors refer to |
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this as the 'internet of things', for commercialization and mindshare |
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purposes. It is actually just embedded devices, with tcp/ip/udp....... |
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So there are trillions of reasons for gentoo folks to pursue minimization |
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all the way down to a stripped (optimized) linux kernel to the point of |
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running embedded linux. Just take a look at Linaro. |
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> >> Hey, I got no printer, had others print about 5 pages for me in ~10 |
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> >> years. Why would I want cups? |
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> >You do know that only the desktop profiles include cups as a default USE |
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> >flag? The one I recommended does not. |
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> Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without |
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> pulling in cups, no matter the use-flags. And "sabotaging" the ebuild |
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> and buildsystem to not use cups leads to failed builds, BT,TriedThat :(( |
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One of the (I guess not so obvious) purposes of my recent thread on profiles |
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is for the community to discuss profiles that are less than the default |
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profile for a given arch. We should be able to readily move up (from an |
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embedded) and down (from a default profile), on each and every arch, with |
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just the minimal flags, configs and such. Default is not even close to |
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minimal. I'm just surprised (mildly disappointed :: but not really) that one |
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of our embedded devs has not already championed this issue. |
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David is just pointing out yet another reason for a different minimization |
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need, but still in-line with what I outlined. I just think that the gentoo |
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community should not have to go it individually alone when such |
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minimizations are desired. |
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Beside just as gentoo teaches one the basics of linux, so do does one learn |
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about hardware issues, when you run an embedded system on a given platform. |
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However, I do understand that *everyone with any sort of embedded expertise* |
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is now mostly focused on the possibilities with the new arm64 SoCs about to |
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appear on the market. |
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hth, |
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James |
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