Re: [gentoo-user] Removing excessive stuff from profile
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:42:47PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote
Taking a lead from this, I went and changed my profile to be the
default, no KDE or gnome, and hey presto, the emerge count went from
about 250 down to about 35. It is currently building now.
I start my USE variable with -* and add in stuff that I need, i.e.
USECPU=mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
USEOTHER= X a52 aac bzip2 cxx dga dri exif ffmpeg flac fortran gallium gif
intel jpeg mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl
openrc png posix readline ssl theora threads tiff tools truetype vim-syntax
vorbis xcomposite webm x264 xpm xv xvid zlib
USE=-* ${USECPU} ${USEOTHER}
...plus I also have some entries in package.use
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing excessive stuff from profile
On 13/07/2013 06:49, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have recently purchased a cubieboard: http://cubieboard.org/ which is an ARM device with SATA. It is going to become a low power media server. I have followed the instructions on getting Gentoo onto it as outlined here: pluto.blogspot.com.au Monday March 18, 2013 I get a working system up and happening when I do the first boot. I then do the profile selection as listed but there are no server profiles, all basically desktop orientated. I chose 27 as suggested but when I do the emerge --pretend -NuD world I get an emerge that has over 250 items and includes things such as cups, libraries for image viewing etc etc, all stuff fine for a desktop but just additional stuff that my little server won't need. So my question is, what files do I have to fiddle to stop portage from wanting to install all of these additional files? I've looked in the world file and there is basically nothing there so I'm guessing it's in the profile somewhere - but just where? At this point in the process, world is indeed empty or nearly empty, nothing wrong with that. profile definitions are in /var/portage/profiles, the one you are using is the /etc/portage/make.conf symlink[1] If you examine the files in those directories, you'll quickly see how it's constructed - it's a tree structure, files have parents and have entries to add and remove things. If you *really* want to, you can define new profiles for yourself and store them anywhere convenient, as a profile is really just some date files and pointers to other data files. man 5 portage gives further details on what can be in each type of file (type is indicated by name). There are no more server profiles as such, that idea is deprecated. Nowadays we have base profiles instead, like default/linux/amd64/13.0 and desktop variants like default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop It's most likely you have most desktop features enabled. Two approaches: - Post the output of eselect profile list run as root - Post the output of emerge --info | grep USE [1] On your system the profiles might be in /usr/portage/profiles and the symlink might be /etc/make.profile. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing excessive stuff from profile
On 07/13/13 17:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/07/2013 06:49, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have recently purchased a cubieboard: http://cubieboard.org/ which is an ARM device with SATA. It is going to become a low power [snip] ... ... ... [snip] There are no more server profiles as such, that idea is deprecated. Nowadays we have base profiles instead, like default/linux/amd64/13.0 and desktop variants like default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop Taking a lead from this, I went and changed my profile to be the default, no KDE or gnome, and hey presto, the emerge count went from about 250 down to about 35. It is currently building now. Thanks for the suggestions, Andrew
[gentoo-user] Removing excessive stuff from profile
Hi all, I have recently purchased a cubieboard: http://cubieboard.org/ which is an ARM device with SATA. It is going to become a low power media server. I have followed the instructions on getting Gentoo onto it as outlined here: pluto.blogspot.com.au Monday March 18, 2013 I get a working system up and happening when I do the first boot. I then do the profile selection as listed but there are no server profiles, all basically desktop orientated. I chose 27 as suggested but when I do the emerge --pretend -NuD world I get an emerge that has over 250 items and includes things such as cups, libraries for image viewing etc etc, all stuff fine for a desktop but just additional stuff that my little server won't need. So my question is, what files do I have to fiddle to stop portage from wanting to install all of these additional files? I've looked in the world file and there is basically nothing there so I'm guessing it's in the profile somewhere - but just where? Any thought, greatly appreciated, Andrew
