Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way:
> 
> 1) install everything you need
> 2) note current system time
> 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo
> 4) remount with noatime
> 5) find all files in the FS that have an atime before the system time you
>     note in 2)
> 6) delete all files found in 5); they were not accessed, so we don't need
>     them?
> 
> What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work?

no

what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs
etc?

look at catalyst, it is the tool for building custom gentoo installs.

> 
> THX,
> 
> Sascha.
> 
> -- 
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