From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTxmH-0002Za-59 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:56:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAC33E09BF; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9D5E09BF for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvc22 with SMTP id 22so384677pvc.40 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:56:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cBg3nYFZ0AjKrx4NL6MvrZyvvj3StDPX9S7CNz3zuL8=; b=kZoEpUnbFk93slFLVlns8Za9sKS8KgpcWTcipSOCvOotPzucxoKSCnCLWyHbweV6Ia KP84fBCm1kVY45/e3FIpQlUigEvPvDo14AcKm7Wvka+WX8hJ16GUluousXlxdrHQiN+3 pagaPdc8nA9JbObe3W276LeK3V3eJGwYxcuzo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Yppa9fBTb7Sp0HCHTz/pIs89Gl4WRboPM0cPfqSHYPAaoKGboNtSeelIbb9+8HZcuL v0KaqqQt5UUydiS4M/NQEtnBTjUKBhpwn/0WVl8FiL6GLfdidH0vzkaL4z7Z8KOGlOBx jVcvhcK1zJuSzE7GyBidNbxduEcXBFEW+wLOU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.67.38 with SMTP id p38mr10232912wfa.167.1277906170141; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.98.3 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:56:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C2B4B47.9090603@gmx.ch> References: <4C2B4B47.9090603@gmx.ch> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:56:10 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bfa68889-0db8-487b-a469-a05854430b47 X-Archives-Hash: 7de2aac791bbf7ac71ee1ad8a14b03e3 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Shoka 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 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0418 MB > /usr/portage =C2=A0 1200 MB > /usr/share =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0550 MB > /usr/src =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0560 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, > Andr=C3=A9 > > > /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