On 05/09/05, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a couple of old machines I maintain and emerging and unmerging > kernel sources take a while because there are so many files. Also one > set of gentoo sources takes about 230MB of disk space. By removing stuff > not belonging to x86 I was able to succesfully run make with 58MB/230MB > removed. The stuff I removed: > arch/* except i386 and x86_64 > include/asm-* expect asm-generic, asm-i386 and asm-x86_64
Is this safe? Various parts of the kernel have been known to pull in things from outside the obvious places. I don't think the source tree is intended to be used like this, so your proposal could lead to build errors. Besides, does this really matter? Disk space grows on trees, and with modern file systems it's not like limited inode counts are an issue. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
