Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

[Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@leetworks.com>]

George Prowse wrote:

> After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to 
> reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after 
> any baselayout upgrade had been applied.

Isn't that what the stages are, Barebone systems?

> This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system 
> after a library malfunction and also if a person wanted to switch from 
> 100% gtk to 100% qt or vice-versa.
>
> At present we have depclean to reduce anything past xorg-x11 but that 
> doesn't get as far as anything that doesn't rely on a package being 
> able to depend on an GUI, libraries need to be brought in and all but 
> baselayout needs to be cleaned out so a "bare bone" is left.

Why not just move world out of the way and then emerge what you want to 
keep/install then emerge depclean the rest (although this could easily 
fubar a system if they do it blindly removing important system packages)

> This would be useful as an arch tester because snapshots could be made 
> of various stages and tested.

> George

Tux

Tux
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