On 04/11/2010 03:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:45:09 -0400, dhk wrote: > >> For example open office is almost 10 Gigs, > > How did that happen? It's around 290MB here, and that's before > compression. The package built when I installed it is 120MB. > >> I would like to exclude that >> and just about everything else I installed over the years, but have it >> installed when I run the "emerge -uDN world" command. > > It sounds like you don't want a stage 4 at all, just a stage 3 and a copy > of /var/lib/portage/world* and /etc/portage. > >
Maybe I misread the number of decimal places on the open office . . . sorry about that. Doing the stage 3 as you suggested sounds good, but how can I ensure the same configuration. I would need to make sure I don't loose any customization like users, domainname, hostname, desktops, timezone, run level programs, bookmarks, .bash_profiles, and all the other stuff; the list goes on. Most of it's easy enough to fix, but I'd rather make sure I have it right from the start if I can. thanks, dhk
