From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElgAZ-0006rY-6V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:24:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBC5NWR2012899; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:23:32 GMT Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBC5LTZ0010500 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:21:30 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.165] (really [68.168.137.100]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051212052126.FFGO11358.mta9.adelphia.net@[192.168.0.165]> for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:21:26 -0500 Message-ID: <439D08D1.2020108@leetworks.com> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:21:21 -0500 From: Andrew Muraco User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051102) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System References: <36babadf0512111913k4d91d9b4m@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <36babadf0512111913k4d91d9b4m@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 65f5f0eb-9d89-410e-b51b-6dfc896bb676 X-Archives-Hash: 25ecbb7a2eae4ae73cb48cf6f4526bdb 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list