Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>]

Ricardo Loureiro wrote:
> Some questions:
> 
> 1- Can I RSYNC_EXCLUDE everything except profiles and have an usable
> system?

Depending on exactly how you're doing this, you'll probably want to keep 
eclasses/ as well.

> 2- There was a portagesql effort, is it dead?

Yes. It has been for a while, afaik.

> 3- If I tweak a custom profile not to have dev packages such as gcc,
> what kind of problems should I expect? Which packages from the base
> profile MUST exist? The idea is that the client machines should not
> be capable of compiling software.

You'll probably run into an ebuild somewhere that directly depends on gcc and/or 
related dev packages (very likely one of the leftover 'system' packages).

> 4- Any ideas on how the conf files should be handled?

Nope :)

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