On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:10 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:01 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Another USE flag that I'm pleased with is "minimal." It disables
> > building all of the sample clients, all of the fonts and many of the
> > drivers. A test install using this was 28MB, compared to 100MB-150MB for
> > a full-featured install.
> 
> Please expound on the "many" of "many of the drivers" for us or point us
> to a location that describes exactly what this removes.  I'm curious,
> because I am currently using "minimal" on LiveCD builds due to its
> impact on vim, but I probably will not want it on xorg-x11 if it could
> possibly break systems or leave out functionality that others will want,
> which means I will have to work around this.

OK, here's some more info on minimal, pulled straight from searching the
ebuild for occurrences of "minimal":

1. No fonts. None. Zero. This means X always dies with "Can't find font
fixed" unless you provide your own. This could potentially be changed if
I find a way to just build the "misc" fonts.

2. None of Tad's fancy cursors

3. No clients. This includes xfs, xdm and xkbcomp.

4. Nothing in /usr/share/doc

5. No Xnest or Xvfb

6. Input drivers limited to mouse and keyboard. Nothing fancy like
aiptek or wacom.

7. For x86 only, remove these video drivers: nsc, glint, tga, s3,
s3virge, rendition, neomagic, i740, cirrus, tseng, trident, chips, apm,
ark, cyrix, siliconmotion. I wasn't sure what was safe for other archs
and didn't want to play around without some more research.

Of those, the only questionable ones to me are s3, s3virge and
especially siliconmotion. I could see the latter being popular on
systems that would otherwise use the "minimal" flag.

8. No man pages