[gentoo-embedded] reduced X11 - how to?

[gentoo-embedded] reduced X11 - how to?

[Francisco Ares]

Hi, All

I use Gentoo in a simple machine.  Nowadays it uses a hard drive, but
I would like to use a small IDE flash drive.  I found the embedded
Gentoo guide, which resulted in a very low size system, but when I
include X, it more than doubles its size.

How can I make X "thinner"?  The system doesn't need a window manager,
so I didn't install any.  The machine application is the X shell.  It
uses Python and WxPython.

Thanks
Francisco

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] reduced X11 - how to?

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

On 11/4/06, Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I make X "thinner"?  The system doesn't need a window manager,
> so I didn't install any.  The machine application is the X shell.  It
> uses Python and WxPython.

You can try USE=kdrive (kdrive is X11 mode for embedded devices),
AFAIK it reduces it's size by removing useless features.

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] reduced X11 - how to?

[Hanni Ali]

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obviously select only the modular parts you actually need don't just emerge
xorg-x11 (this pulls down loads of unnecessary stuff)

determine the exact dependencies necessary

in addition to kdrive (which I'm not hugely familiar with but search "xorg
kdrive" on google and i found some useful mailing lists etc.) USE="minimal"
reduces unneceassary stuff i use minimal as a global for a lot of packages
when building livecd/usb's

I use gentoo-portage to check what use flags do, also actually reading the
ebuild in question can tell you a lot

http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-base/xorg-server/USE#ptabs

check the bottom of the page it mentions

*minimal*
Global: *Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins,
fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)*

i haven't tried kdrive yet but will at some point

Hanni


On 04/11/06, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/4/06, Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How can I make X "thinner"?  The system doesn't need a window manager,
> > so I didn't install any.  The machine application is the X shell.  It
> > uses Python and WxPython.
>
> You can try USE=kdrive (kdrive is X11 mode for embedded devices),
> AFAIK it reduces it's size by removing useless features.
>
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> Sincerely,
> Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
> http://hackndev.com
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> gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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