RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution'

RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution'

Posted Mar 4, 2004 11:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution' by flewellyn
Parent article: RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution'

Hardly.

You have to have the whole portage tree no matter what, and it's getting pretty big (>500Mb).

This rules out gentoo on one machine I use Linux on (it's a small laptop with disk space shared with Windows, and no network card: the whole distro must fit into 200Mb of disk space. Debian fits: Gentoo surely doesn't.

Admittedly, this is not Gentoo's *fault* as such; it's not meant as a small-system distro. But a properly componentized distro would work in this situation, I like to think.)

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