On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   My solution to simplify Gentoo...
> 
> waltd...@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask 
> sys-libs/pam
> sys-apps/dbus
> sys-apps/hal

That's as much crippling as simplifying. You can do without pam and hal
by setting appropriate USE flags (I run pam-free here by
doing just that) but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to
communicate with one another and removing it can stop your desktop
working as it should.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

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