[gentoo-user] smaller xfce

[gentoo-user] smaller xfce

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

I'm currently installing xfce and I dont need several things
like calendar, print, toys, etc. 

Is there any chance of selecting these compontents w/o installing
all packages by hand ?

A quick look at the ebuild shows up it's just an virtual package
pulling in the whole stuff. 

Perhaps we could give it some useflags to make the whole 
installation easier ?


cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] smaller xfce

[Ryan Tandy]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm currently installing xfce and I dont need several things
> like calendar, print, toys, etc. 
> 
> Is there any chance of selecting these compontents w/o installing
> all packages by hand ?
> 
> A quick look at the ebuild shows up it's just an virtual package
> pulling in the whole stuff. 
> 
> Perhaps we could give it some useflags to make the whole 
> installation easier ?
> 
> 
> cu

You can do this yourself, if you want to: simply copy the xfce 
meta-ebuild to your own overlay (man portage if you aren't sure how this 
works), and remove or comment out the packages you don't want.  I do 
this myself to get a GNOME without evolution, epiphany, and such 
(gnome-light doesn't like me :().  Next time the ebuild in the tree is 
updated, though, you'll have to repeat the whole process again before 
updating, or risk returning to the full package.

HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] smaller xfce

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> You can do this yourself, if you want to: simply copy the xfce 
> meta-ebuild to your own overlay (man portage if you aren't sure how this 
> works), and remove or comment out the packages you don't want.

Yes, of course, but then I have to maintain this alone. Would make
more sense if some more people would join me.

> I do this myself to get a GNOME without evolution, epiphany, and such 
> (gnome-light doesn't like me :().  Next time the ebuild in the tree is 
> updated, though, you'll have to repeat the whole process again before 
> updating, or risk returning to the full package.

Well, let's put our efforts together, maybe let's call it the
"small installation overlay".


cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] smaller xfce

[b.n.]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm currently installing xfce and I dont need several things
> like calendar, print, toys, etc. 
> 
> Is there any chance of selecting these compontents w/o installing
> all packages by hand ?

Using a "light" XFCE myself, I don't get what's the trouble in choosing 
just the packages you need and emerging them...

I think the trouble of doing an overlay/new meta-ebuild etc. is much 
more than simply typing "eix xfce4", looking at what you need and what 
not, and emerging them.

m.
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