Hi all, I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that just takes up space, such as /usr/portage.
I made a binary package with quickpkg, to install (with emerge --usepkg) on one of these PC's, but it complains about lots of stuff missing. So, if I want to do without /usr/portage, can I just install binary packages by untarring them to / ? Or is there other essential stuff that emerge does when you install a binary package? I would appreciate comments on how to make this work - maybe by just leaving an essential subset of /usr/portage. Note, that I know I won't be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
