To achieve a larger number of packages getting linked as static you
could append LDFLAGS="-static" in your make.conf.
This will work on alot of ebuilds that don't support static in the IUSE,
but this option must be used with care.

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:38:42PM -0800, Dejan Nikic wrote:
> > well the thing is that you don't want to remove gcc, only portage some
> > unused libs (i doubt their any with default Gentoo install) and probably
> > all those man and doc files.  There should be ways to statically link
> > everything, but that might be some work.
> > 
> > I got a 200mb install now, that I will hackaway at and try to get it
> > bellow 50mb hopefully I'm thinking of maybe writing something that will
> > use an existing gentoo install and use gentoo's portage and stuff to build
> > an LFS-like (Linux from scratch) image.
> > 
> 
> Turns out I had a lot of extra time at work today... ;-)
> well here is submerge.  It is about 150 lines of bash and nothing very special.
> submerge takes a couple of configuration parameters in a file to run.
> 
> I've attached it plus a sample config file.  There are a couple extra
> features I have in mind for it... and I'm open to suggestions and code
> ;-)
> 
> like I said before, a basic system can be done with:
> 
> sys-kernel/linux-headers
> glibc
> =busybox-0.60.5-r1
> =gawk-3.1.2-r3
> =baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1
> tinylogin
> 
> Dave
> 
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