Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Shoka <shoka@gmx.ch> wrote:
> On 30.06.2010 15:56, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>
>> /usr/src could be reduced to one source tree.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Mark
>>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Unfortunately I don't fully understand. What do you mean by "reducing to
> one source tree"?
>
> Regards
> andré
>
>

Hello Andre,
   OK - I think others have explained that if you have ever had more
than 1 kernel on the machine then you may still have old source code
trees. Get rid of the ones you aren't using.

   Related but not a lot of diskspace - don't forget to clean up any
unused module directories for kernels no longer on the system.

   Others noted Gnome. I find XFCE to be 98% the same user experience
for 15% of the build time. I expect you would find it very reasonable
as a Gnome user. I've used fluxbox and it's great, but it's very, very
different and may be more of a change than you want to deal with.

   Sorry on the distfiles suggestion. When I reread your post I
finally saw that you had already taken care of that.

   One related thing is that should an ebuild die portage often leaves
behind big build directories of the work it was doing. They can be
cleaned up also. Look for the word 'work' or 'WORK' where code gets
built.

   Look at log file sizes. They can grow over time. Some tools that
create log files can limit there sizes or there are ways to compress
and rotate if that suits your needs.

   I suspect your biggest immediate win after distfiles would be with
XFCE. (and emerge -C gnome)

Good luck,
Mark