On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/08/13 06:20, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> Unless I hear something that would indicate it will be too crippled >>>> even for the usage I plan. >>> >>> >>> You should of course put those USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use >>> instead of setting them in the command-line, otherwise they won't be >>> remembered. >>> >>> But I would go with the defaults anyway. There is no reason at all >>> why you should not install 194 packages. >> >> >> Only that this is a smallish install with only 32gb of disk space. > > > You would be surprised how little space most packages actually consume once > installed :-) For example, my desktop has a full KDE install (*with* > semantic-desktop), lots of extra packages for developing, graphics editing, > audio editing, four different browsers with all their deps, etc. It's a > multilib system with lots of 32-bit compatibility deps. In total, that's > 1381 installed packages. Total space consumed is 8GB. > > So I'd say try to install it. If it turns out it takes too much space, it's > very easy to get rid of all those deps again:
Full GNOME+systemd desktop, plus goodies like LibreOffice and Chromium: acero ~ # du -sh /usr/bin/ 389M /usr/bin/ acero ~ # du -sh /bin/ 8.7M /bin/ acero ~ # du -sh /usr/sbin/ 32M /usr/sbin/ acero ~ # du -sh /sbin/ 6.2M /sbin/ acero ~ # du -sh /usr/lib64/ 2.2G /usr/lib64/ acero ~ # du -sh /lib64/ 45M /lib64/ 2.6 GB in total. Also: acero ~ # du -sh /usr/share/doc 2.5G /usr/share/doc You will save much more space by using USE="-doc" (or perhaps even adding /usr/share/doc to INSTALL_MASK), than by removing potentially useful functionality. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
