I am trying to build a number of minimal Gentoo images without portage installed. The approach I was taking was to build a master image with all the software that I need according to the standard Gentoo installation instructions, and then remove portage and create the minimal images. If I ever decide that I need to install new software or upgrade something, I'll make the changes to the master and generate new minimal images.
My question is, how do I correctly uninstall portage? My main concern is the several hundred megabytes taken up by /usr/portage, /var/cache/edb, /var/db/pkg, /var/lib/portage and wherever else portage stores data; I'm not really concerned with the binaries, but would prefer to remove them as well, just to be tidy. Will "emerge -C portage" clean up everything safely, or will I have to clean up some directories manually? For that matter, what are all the directories used for data by portage, that I could delete on a system that doesn't use portage? Thanks, Rennie deGraaf -- [email protected] mailing list
