On Sunday 21 January 2007 17:55, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > Every once in a blue moon I screw up something. I don't know why I > am telling you this. I come here mostly for help. LOL So you > already now that. I have buildpkg set in make.conf. It does tend to > consume some space though. What is say the top ten or twelve > programs that would be good to have in case of a rescue? I would > assume portage, gcc and python would be pretty important. I plan to > delete the rest for space. > > Since I figure some of you have more experience, I thought I would > ask you folks. What is really needed to rescue from a serious > borking of a Gentoo install?
Everything in system - it all has to be there anyway Then anything else you consider that's a major pain to emerge - openoffice, koffice, kde and Xorg come to mind. This isn't necessary, just makes life more convenient if and when you need it alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
