Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Shoka <shoka@gmx.ch> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

/usr/portage/distfiles probably includes all the source which you
don't strictly need to keep if you don't mind downloading it again at
a future date. You can remove that.

/usr/src could be reduced to one source tree.

HTH,
Mark