On 30.06.2010 15:48, Shoka wrote: > Hello group, > > I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I > need is > > - X11 and a Window Manager > - Mozilla Firefox > - Lighttpd > > I use Gnome at this time. > > du reports the following directories as the biggest directories on my > system: > > /usr/lib 418 MB > /usr/portage 1200 MB > /usr/share 550 MB > /usr/src 560 MB (Kernel Sources) > > The other directories are very small. > > I think, the system is quite heavy in size, isn't it? I really would > like to be able to shrink it down but not loosing functionality. > > Now I'm looking for tips to reduce disk consumption further. I've > already cleaned /usr/portage/distfiles. > > I read that removing the whole /usr/portage after setting up the system > is not a good idea. Is that true? > > May be someone could recommend a better window manager (smaller in size, > stable)? > > I really appreciate any kind of recommendation to this topic. > > > Kind regards, > André > >
Hello folks, Thank you all for giving me your thoughts and for sharing your experience with me. I really appreciate that. I think I'll give XFCE a try and have a more detailed look in all the mentioned cleanup commands posted here in this thread. SquashFS seems to be a good possibility to shrink the portage tree to a minimum. I take a dive into the docs and possibly give it a try too :) Thank you André
