User:Maffblaster/Drafts/Skinny Gentoo

This article [[Article description::tracks various techniques for making Gentoo consume less disk space (shrinking the size of the Gentoo base installation). This is useful when trying to trim the size of Gentoo down

make.conf
can be adjusted to remove unnecessary files.

Then recompile the @world set.

Replacing coreutils with a single binary implementation
Many of the functional core utilities in Gentoo can be replaced with a smaller, single binary implementation such as  or.

Changing out the C lib
Use instead. This is possible by selecting the default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl profile.

Removing transient cache files
The following directories are ethereal / transient and can be removed before shipping an image:, ,