Catalyst Tips & Tricks

Disclaimer: Some of those a pretty ugly and should only be used as a workaround. Keep in mind that some of those also need fixing before releasing your stage/livecd!

Keep out those nasty language support files!

Well, yeah, since most of our tools have an English only documentation, we except you to understand it. Also since we're always striving to spare space, we remove all other languages from the livecd. How so? By using the -nls USE flag and cleaning at the end with purgelocales. The true question is: How to do it from stage1 ?

Easy, simply hack your way in the portage profile and remove it. The file should be /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults.

Python 3 / cracklib is driving me crazy!

We haven't found a way yet to go past it in a somewhat proper way.