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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] server to firewall conversion
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:55:57
Message-Id: loom.20060215T143830-483@post.gmane.org
1 Hello,
2
3 I've been pruning down a server to become a minimal firewall. Slowly
4 removing packages, running 'revdep-rebuild -p' removing packages
5 and so on. Now I've got my make.conf looking like this:
6
7 USE="perl -gtk -gnome -qt -kde acl acpi hardened kerberos krb4 ssl -alsa -arts/
8 -avi -cups -gif -gstreamer -gtk2 -jpeg -motif -mp3 -mpeg -ogg -oggvorbis /
9 -png -quicktime -spell -vorbis -X -xmms -xv dvd -cdr sse mmx -cups /
10 -jack -php -tiff lm_sensors -mozilla doc syslog "
11
12 Anything else I should add/subtract from the USE flags?
13
14 When I run a emerge -uavDN world, it still wants to rebuild some X packages:
15 x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6
16
17 Somehow, I think I've missed a few things as I definately want X, kde and gnome
18 removed from the server-to-firewall.
19
20 thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.
21
22 James
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Re: [gentoo-user] server to firewall conversion z3rosix@×××××××.ch
Re: [gentoo-user] server to firewall conversion Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>