Re: [gentoo-user] Re: congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 27 June 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: > > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated > > > one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE > > > flags (that would not change t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated > > one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE > > flags (that would not change the overall behaviour of what is > > already there), eme

[gentoo-user] Re: congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread James
Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes: > Pruning a fat system can be very time consuming. I'd rather clone the > I'd rather tar the whole small system up and install this tarball on > the other one (after adjusting partitioning, creating filesystems and > such). Yes, that's what occurred to me, as I w

[gentoo-user] Re: congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated one)? > As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE flags (that > would not change the overall behaviour of what is already there), > emerge a lot of new packages, and basically a