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On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 03/08/13 06:20, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> [...] |
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>>>> Unless I hear something that would indicate it will be too crippled |
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>>>> even for the usage I plan. |
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>>> You should of course put those USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use |
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>>> instead of setting them in the command-line, otherwise they won't be |
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>>> remembered. |
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>>> But I would go with the defaults anyway. There is no reason at all |
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>>> why you should not install 194 packages. |
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>> Only that this is a smallish install with only 32gb of disk space. |
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> You would be surprised how little space most packages actually consume once |
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> installed :-) For example, my desktop has a full KDE install (*with* |
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> semantic-desktop), lots of extra packages for developing, graphics editing, |
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> audio editing, four different browsers with all their deps, etc. It's a |
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> multilib system with lots of 32-bit compatibility deps. In total, that's |
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> 1381 installed packages. Total space consumed is 8GB. |
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> So I'd say try to install it. If it turns out it takes too much space, it's |
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> very easy to get rid of all those deps again: |
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Full GNOME+systemd desktop, plus goodies like LibreOffice and Chromium: |
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acero ~ # du -sh /usr/bin/ |
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389M /usr/bin/ |
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acero ~ # du -sh /bin/ |
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8.7M /bin/ |
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acero ~ # du -sh /usr/sbin/ |
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32M /usr/sbin/ |
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acero ~ # du -sh /sbin/ |
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6.2M /sbin/ |
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acero ~ # du -sh /usr/lib64/ |
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2.2G /usr/lib64/ |
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acero ~ # du -sh /lib64/ |
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45M /lib64/ |
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2.6 GB in total. Also: |
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acero ~ # du -sh /usr/share/doc |
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2.5G /usr/share/doc |
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You will save much more space by using USE="-doc" (or perhaps even |
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adding /usr/share/doc to INSTALL_MASK), than by removing potentially |
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useful functionality. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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