Gentoo is not designed to save space, or rather isnt worried about space is a better way to describe it.
Some things you can do : delete /usr/portage/distfiles/* - can save lots, but often the same distfile is used for updates/rebuilds, so I would copy them to another system running rsync (point make.conf to it) if possible and clean this directory on a regular basis. portage can be put on a compressed loopback which is supposed to give good gains, both in space and speed. Use flags: some ebuilds like xorg have a "minimal" use flag. "-docs" which removes extra documentation is also a good one. Look into building only one or two locales which saved a huge amount of space, but I did run into some errors because of things some apps were expecting were reomoved - a full emerge -ep may have fixed this tho. Keep only the current kernel installed (or delete all of them! - /usr/src/linux*) If you want to keep the kernel source, do a "make clean" after install to save a few hundred M. Use one partition for the bulk of the system to avoid wasting space. A problem with the above is that its hard to remove all the fluff on built system, so the best effect is on a new install. Believe it or not, it is possible to put a fully usable desktop with office apps on a bootable 256M USB key with room to spare! Very tricky methods used, but thats the fun of it. BillK On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:33 -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > If you were very judicious you might, possibly, somehow get it into > > 3GB but that would be tight. My smallest installation right now is a > > Pundit-R running fluxbox and MythTV. I uses about 2.4GB: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
