On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:01 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Hm, I suspect it's the livecd USE flag on vim-core that's doing most of
> that... Built as:
> 
> [   R   ] =app-editors/vim-7.0_alpha20040924  -acl -cscope -debug
> -gpm -minimal -mzscheme +ncurses -nls -perl -python -ruby (-selinux)
> -tcltk -vim-with-x 0 kB [1]
> 
> which includes proper terminal support, vim comes to about a meg on the
> system I'm on right now. With minimal turned on it comes to just over
> 400KBytes. vim-core built normally is about eleven megs across a
> thousand or so files, built with USE="livecd -nls" it's one meg and ~200
> files (and I could probably nuke a hundred or so of those, if you don't
> mind upsetting people who want to use straaange keymaps).
> 
> So, if half a meg (assuming you already have ncurses) isn't too high a
> price for decent terminal (terminfo rather than termcap) support, you
> might not necessarily be best with the minimal USE flag turned on (I'm
> guessing catalyst still doesn't do per-package USE flags easily?).

Actually, it can use package.use just like any normal system.

I'll look into it and see what I can come up with, but it looks like
I'll probably end up running from now on *without* USE=minimal on the
LiveCD.  We're already using USE="livecd -nls", so that savings was
definitely appreciated.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux