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On 6/30/10, Shoka <shoka@×××.ch> 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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Advice given so far seems to assume that you only have this one |
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system. But if you have another system that can take care of compiling |
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and building binary pkgs then you can probably slice off the 50MB+ or |
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more out of gcc, autotools, and such as well. In effect, turning |
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Gentoo into your very own, private binary distro. |
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As already mentioned, the embedded folks probably know this |
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intimately. Also, see the portage man page for defining your own |
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system set (without, e.g., gcc and autoconf), and man page of emerge |
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for option --buildpkg (and also other --*pkg* options of emerge). |
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Good luck, have fun! |
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Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors |