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Hi all, |
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I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that |
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just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. |
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I made a binary package with quickpkg, to install (with emerge --usepkg) |
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on one of these PC's, but it complains about lots of stuff missing. |
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So, if I want to do without /usr/portage, can I just install binary |
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packages by untarring them to / ? Or is there other essential stuff |
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that emerge does when you install a binary package? |
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I would appreciate comments on how to make this work - maybe by just |
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leaving an essential subset of /usr/portage. Note, that I know I won't |
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be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage |
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stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of |
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each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD. |
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thanks, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a |
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dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. |
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(Arno Schaefer's .sig) |
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