Minimal chroot installation

[LIsLinuxIsSogood]

(edited as of well, now)
Hi, I am following the guide in wiki for the chroot, at the stage of installing packages for the 32-bit chroot environment, the purpose of it is mostly to run Wine and maybe a few other windows applications from it. I was thinking unlike other gentoo installs, to severely limit the packages in world set with this.

I wanted to remove SSL but I'm not sure that I'm going to have any luck with that because it looks like it is a dependency of Portage. Is that correct?

In general, though would be nice to know how I might get around including a bunch of packages that aren't even going to be useful to me. And in the process be able to:
1) Reduce the storage on hard disk
2) Limit the functioning to just what I need on the chroot
3) Maintain it over time, don't know if Portage is going to be the right tool for the job here or not.

IF there isn't arleady a wiki on developing a chroot within gentoo environment for a non-Portage managed environment, would that have the potential of being more/less minimal than the alternative which is to follow the wiki which uses a bunch of bind mounts and then installs everything from the portage tree.

Everything is working fine right now with the portage install, but basically just checking if there is a more minimal thing I can go or if I should abandon the idea of making it a smaller footprint, and allow the additional packages to be merged. Like in this case:

[fidel]

Maybe its just a typo in your post but you wrote

[LIsLinuxIsSogood]

These are all good aspects to note, and good thoughts thanks for the suggestions. I've tried running wine in the native enviornment, which is pure 64-bit...don't ask me why I went that route with the initial install on the system. But as you mentioned, wine is more particularly what I am after, rather than VM solution, in order to do just the following: have office on there, and play a bunch of games that I accumulated over the years (and recently, ha hah). Nothing too process heavy, or anything that should require the full VT technology or whatever of the kernel at this point. So besides not wanting to waste space, I am pleased with the minimal resources taken as well of wine when it isn't directly running a process in the foreground it pretty much doesn't use up any memory or cpu. That and with a VM that would be just another system I'd be managing and would need to look after. And no dreadful windows installations and updates!!!

I think in the future, there will be much more software like what is seen with wine, which does more for the improvement of not just linux users, but all of linux programming of software applications by bringing cross-platform (OS platform) software solutions to users. Otherwise in theory, I guess I could go back to a dual boot system, but there's just no way I would ever want Windose

Up until recently I had the installation of all wine packages, along with another 32-bit enging (Steam) running on my desktop build, which was installed with both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries so there was no problems there.

But now that I'm effectively wanting to move all that windows stuff over to my work laptop and off of the desktop this is like starting over again, which it is. I've noticed that the idea of chroot environment comes into play heavily with these technologies, like Steam (which is built for Ubuntu but runs in a 32-bit chroot envirnoment), and Wine which I never had to learn how it worked, until now because it just did on my multilibrary machine, but that is no longer an option!!!

[NeddySeagoon]

LIsLinuxIsSogood,

A long time ago when the first liweCD was produced for Gentoos 10th birtday. I wote HOWTO_DVD_10.0_10.1 after I was told that its not possibre to install from the liveCD.

The interesting part in relation to this topic is where it describes creating a chroot from individual binary packages - without the use of a stage3
You can build your own binaries, or get them from a public binhost.
You may need a few more packages now but its a good minimal chroot starting point.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[fidel]

In effect an interesting idea in general, would be glad to hear more about your success story.