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 1OU0Om-0002iV-Ta for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:44:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 356C9E0D22; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24C4E0D22 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so547301bwz.40 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:44:00 -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; bh=TJ90GOSLbs5BDgXzwMYyHdI1G12LuoTgrjjX+jtkBCU=; b=P9KAOxd0SFsL3vpX+YKMCBi7T2Md8Rlgp4HHyRlsFKWkjVmdz3anPmvZzDdvXvK6E5 hVdwyeE9ISXiZFlSpIbOToWAOOPH1EKFCkCUKk5Z6eMuWVuy0qbaxQ+kw1cawPsf/bvQ YGFUtBHQMA+DGVJWje0tpLmgrngokf2YbViXc= 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; b=hL1v0T09N6z8iT0P87uzc5SwGWt0rPHGy2rTsXLM/2O/V/tqSBAai9iLsD4fPD8PGg XRZGqN45MX3o3SJHn+hKKXnLPpSgv7+Q+ezx93nKTevswPldogNBPX9OggXdqylreUxL Am4m/VN9YT14TYU940r5YYGyekT5jRKvLJd4s= 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 10.204.2.71 with SMTP id 7mr6523469bki.213.1277916240121; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.156.212 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:44:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C2B4B47.9090603@gmx.ch> References: <4C2B4B47.9090603@gmx.ch> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:44:00 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X From: "Arttu V." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 2ad8c392-fd31-4952-b15e-49a4281c8a68 X-Archives-Hash: eebf80a49cc19270d7de9e59f7dda12f On 6/30/10, 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 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. Advice given so far seems to assume that you only have this one system. But if you have another system that can take care of compiling and building binary pkgs then you can probably slice off the 50MB+ or more out of gcc, autotools, and such as well. In effect, turning Gentoo into your very own, private binary distro. As already mentioned, the embedded folks probably know this intimately. Also, see the portage man page for defining your own system set (without, e.g., gcc and autoconf), and man page of emerge for option --buildpkg (and also other --*pkg* options of emerge). Good luck, have fun! -- Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors