On Friday 06 June 2003 12:06, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > My main point is that we should take recent components and not use older > versions.
I agree. There's no need to use old packages because of space/speed constrains. Gentoo can be used as a base for a very minimal system. You could compile everything with -Os, turn off all kinds of use flags and remove packages you don't want as well as manpages etc. You could even make a 'crippled' system - remove pieces of gcc/binutils and include files and kernel sources to really minimize space. (Of course, this must be compiled in a chroot on a separate box. Temp space required for compiling glibc, xfree etc. can be quite big.) Then you get the latest packages, security fixes etc. And if you don't go for the 'crippled' option, you can keep it updated same as any other gentoo box. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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