From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F6F1381F3 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 19:18:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73B27E0B5B; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 19:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f41.google.com (mail-la0-f41.google.com [209.85.215.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C86CE0B35 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 19:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f41.google.com with SMTP id ec20so1197693lab.14 for ; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ayo+lPkidOyFRVzDMZWeRjoV/OeQSH2DFcL3wtEQM4M=; b=rs2kCb1jzqiNgyMayYEi3W7W8Ngiq4zr3VQcQTXoyvrAghEztXHVz6RnGUvQpa3Bz0 xGXK5PGghp1Dcd/oncdv5oMLnSMuXescsPDAUDas1txTn4HF2U/GEiPvbbBQ7o/Ao/sX X/La4VvPj3xw6MOfRsOzsL3x5fE0IHiVzwY9huWSVLj79b/Jff00wdNl9RSPo/7KE7dI sKCijB0A/xKMrGqao/Rk/mCggRqV3+KuiEaZRI13cJ0ZXyfqpcqJqCnbybHy9WLex5R3 zDsz6Tl8KRJ6HvPgGpE3FBDLyMmwGczug8FFEjnXCzsHxD6o1Q1WUCyWME4jJSIPJXhY 6R4w== 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 X-Received: by 10.112.55.207 with SMTP id u15mr5675026lbp.58.1375557508449; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.96.2 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Aug 2013 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <87ehabv5la.fsf@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 14:18:28 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d3eed030-d466-4db7-96bd-26581f15dc34 X-Archives-Hash: f82f39cead14ef3a8cdb7168c8c8ab66 On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/08/13 06:20, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Nikos Chantziaras writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> Unless I hear something that would indicate it will be too crippled >>>> even for the usage I plan. >>> >>> >>> You should of course put those USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use >>> instead of setting them in the command-line, otherwise they won't be >>> remembered. >>> >>> But I would go with the defaults anyway. There is no reason at all >>> why you should not install 194 packages. >> >> >> Only that this is a smallish install with only 32gb of disk space. > > > You would be surprised how little space most packages actually consume on= ce > installed :-) For example, my desktop has a full KDE install (*with* > semantic-desktop), lots of extra packages for developing, graphics editin= g, > audio editing, four different browsers with all their deps, etc. It's a > multilib system with lots of 32-bit compatibility deps. In total, that's > 1381 installed packages. Total space consumed is 8GB. > > So I'd say try to install it. If it turns out it takes too much space, i= t's > very easy to get rid of all those deps again: Full GNOME+systemd desktop, plus goodies like LibreOffice and Chromium: acero ~ # du -sh /usr/bin/ 389M /usr/bin/ acero ~ # du -sh /bin/ 8.7M /bin/ acero ~ # du -sh /usr/sbin/ 32M /usr/sbin/ acero ~ # du -sh /sbin/ 6.2M /sbin/ acero ~ # du -sh /usr/lib64/ 2.2G /usr/lib64/ acero ~ # du -sh /lib64/ 45M /lib64/ 2.6 GB in total. Also: acero ~ # du -sh /usr/share/doc 2.5G /usr/share/doc You will save much more space by using USE=3D"-doc" (or perhaps even adding /usr/share/doc to INSTALL_MASK), than by removing potentially useful functionality. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico