George Prowse wrote:
After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to
reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after
any baselayout upgrade had been applied.
Isn't that what the stages are, Barebone systems?
This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system
after a library malfunction and also if a person wanted to switch from
100% gtk to 100% qt or vice-versa.
At present we have depclean to reduce anything past xorg-x11 but that
doesn't get as far as anything that doesn't rely on a package being
able to depend on an GUI, libraries need to be brought in and all but
baselayout needs to be cleaned out so a "bare bone" is left.
Why not just move world out of the way and then emerge what you want to
keep/install then emerge depclean the rest (although this could easily
fubar a system if they do it blindly removing important system packages)
This would be useful as an arch tester because snapshots could be made
of various stages and tested.
George
Tux
Tux
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