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On 30.06.2010 15:48, 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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Hello folks, |
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Thank you all for giving me your thoughts and for sharing your |
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experience with me. I really appreciate that. |
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I think I'll give XFCE a try and have a more detailed look in all the |
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mentioned cleanup commands posted here in this thread. |
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SquashFS seems to be a good possibility to shrink the portage tree to a |
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minimum. I take a dive into the docs and possibly give it a try too :) |
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Thank you |
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André |
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