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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:56:37
Message-Id: AANLkTim2yrERMvVABNke9buJ-7gCP6tT-yMmymi_nRZ0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X by Shoka
1 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Shoka <shoka@×××.ch> wrote:
2 > Hello group,
3 >
4 > I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I
5 > need is
6 >
7 > - X11 and a Window Manager
8 > - Mozilla Firefox
9 > - Lighttpd
10 >
11 > I use Gnome at this time.
12 >
13 > du reports the following directories as the biggest directories on my
14 > system:
15 >
16 > /usr/lib        418 MB
17 > /usr/portage   1200 MB
18 > /usr/share      550 MB
19 > /usr/src        560 MB (Kernel Sources)
20 >
21 > The other directories are very small.
22 >
23 > I think, the system is quite heavy in size, isn't it? I really would
24 > like to be able to shrink it down but not loosing functionality.
25 >
26 > Now I'm looking for tips to reduce disk consumption further. I've
27 > already cleaned /usr/portage/distfiles.
28 >
29 > I read that removing the whole /usr/portage after setting up the system
30 > is not a good idea. Is that true?
31 >
32 > May be someone could recommend a better window manager (smaller in size,
33 > stable)?
34 >
35 > I really appreciate any kind of recommendation to this topic.
36 >
37 >
38 > Kind regards,
39 > André
40 >
41 >
42 >
43
44 /usr/portage/distfiles probably includes all the source which you
45 don't strictly need to keep if you don't mind downloading it again at
46 a future date. You can remove that.
47
48 /usr/src could be reduced to one source tree.
49
50 HTH,
51 Mark

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