On Friday 27 June 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> 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 > > > arrive at what you have on the bloated machine? > > > > No, > > > > Years ago they were similar. Then the minimal system lost a hard > > drive and I reinstalled it, as a minimal gentoo server. The bloated > > one has been a workstation and had all sorts of gui/kde stuffage > > installed on it. > > I had a somewhat similar setup between a desktop machine at home > (never connected to the internet) and my notebook.
Reading other replies after I sent the one above, I think I completely misunderstood the OP question. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
