[gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

[Shoka <shoka@gmx.ch>]

Hello group,

I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I
need is

- X11 and a Window Manager
- Mozilla Firefox
- Lighttpd

I use Gnome at this time.

du reports the following directories as the biggest directories on my
system:

/usr/lib        418 MB
/usr/portage   1200 MB
/usr/share      550 MB
/usr/src        560 MB (Kernel Sources)

The other directories are very small.

I think, the system is quite heavy in size, isn't it? I really would
like to be able to shrink it down but not loosing functionality.

Now I'm looking for tips to reduce disk consumption further. I've
already cleaned /usr/portage/distfiles.

I read that removing the whole /usr/portage after setting up the system
is not a good idea. Is that true?

May be someone could recommend a better window manager (smaller in size,
stable)?

I really appreciate any kind of recommendation to this topic.


Kind regards,
André