Comments on: embedded gentoo linux: the basics http://wonkabar.org/archives/359 linux, databases, cartoons and cornflakes Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:44:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: yoshi314 http://wonkabar.org/archives/359#comment-25160 yoshi314 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:31:11 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/archives/359#comment-25160 pacman package manager from archlinux and its from-source tool makepkg has also a couple of neat features, like predefined options for stripping built packages of development files (*.la, *.a headers, documentation, manpages, gtk help files etc, etc). gentoo, although more flexible, has but one problem in this regard - it does not provide an ebuild for gcc-libs, which stands for gcc libraries, without the compiler (archlinux does have an pkgbuild). using this instead of whole gcc really trims down your system, without resorting to manual intervention, as you simply cannot do without libstdc++ (well, if you use gcc3 you can, because there is an ebuild for it; but that's just an exception) or other gcc libraries if you are going to run c++ apps in your system. pacman package manager from archlinux and its from-source tool makepkg has also a couple of neat features, like predefined options for stripping built packages of development files (*.la, *.a headers, documentation, manpages, gtk help files etc, etc).

gentoo, although more flexible, has but one problem in this regard - it does not provide an ebuild for gcc-libs, which stands for gcc libraries, without the compiler (archlinux does have an pkgbuild). using this instead of whole gcc really trims down your system, without resorting to manual intervention, as you simply cannot do without libstdc++ (well, if you use gcc3 you can, because there is an ebuild for it; but that’s just an exception) or other gcc libraries if you are going to run c++ apps in your system.

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