Re: [gentoo-server] trim down portage directory

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>]

Tomasz Lutelmowski wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here is one-liner which can be helpful if you want to trim down your gentoo
> installation, particulary /usr/portage directory and/or lower emerge 
> --sync times / save bandwidth (requires app-portage/portage-utils):
> 
> (echo -e "+ profiles**\n+ eclass**\n+ metadata*\n+ metadata/cache*\n+ 
> metadata/dtd**\n+ metadata/glsa**\n+ metadata/news**\n+ scripts**"; for 
> f in `qlist -IC | cut -f1 -d'/' | sort | uniq | sort`; do echo "+ $f**"; 
> echo "+ metadata/cache/$f**"; done; echo "- */") > 
> /etc/portage/rsync_excludes
> 
> you need also to add this line to make.conf
> 
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"

This is a bit short-sighted. Using this doesn't allow you to install any 
additional packages (unless the package and its dependencies happen to be in the 
category of a package you already have installed) and will break dep resolution 
when the dependencies change for any packages that you currently have installed.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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