George Prowse wrote: > After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to > reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after > any baselayout upgrade had been applied. > > This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system > after a library malfunction and also if a person wanted to switch from > 100% gtk to 100% qt or vice-versa. > > At present we have depclean to reduce anything past xorg-x11 but that > doesn't get as far as anything that doesn't rely on a package being able > to depend on an GUI, libraries need to be brought in and all but > baselayout needs to be cleaned out so a "bare bone" is left. > > This would be useful as an arch tester because snapshots could be made > of various stages and tested.
Stage4 maybe? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4 making snapshots of lvm volumes with devmap is also pretty nice. --de. -- [email protected] mailing list
