[plug] Small Gentoo Installation

[William Kenworthy]

Thought of a couple more things:

Use flags:
rattus ~ # euse -i minimal doc
global use flags (searching: minimal doc)
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[-    ] minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example,
plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)
[+ C  ] doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)

local use flags (searching: minimal doc)
************************************************************

Theses are two off the top of the mind that have been pointed out when
bloat is needing to be rained in.

Also, build xorg with only the driver/modules you need (is 7.1 any
better than the 6.8 series here?) - may be covered by the minimal use
flag

glibc by default installs a lot of locale stuff that can be done away
with - gentoo has some flags to restrict it to one (english?) only
build.  Or are you already using busybox and dietlibc etc?

Uninstall the man pages package and rm -rfv /usr/share/docs

Try 'du /|sort -rn|less' to see what the biggest space wasters are.

BillK


On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:19 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> Brilliant, thanks everyone. I'd already cleaned out
> /usr/portage/distfiles and /var/tmp, so no luck there. I was also
> careful to not install the kernel in the first place.
> 
> I'd already scanned those USB key howtos, but I'll have a closer look.
> VM software is Xen, btw.
> 
> -Patrick
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