On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 22:43, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> I'm starting to feel more like this, WGT the use flags... when I
> installed gentoo on a server here at work, I left the use flags alone,
> figuring "hey it's a server" but then I noticed that certain packages
> WANTED to install some rediculous amounts of optional requirements, so I
> started using "-" use flags, and that seemed to work. Then I noticed
> other packages building without supports for things I needed (like
> CUPS). Anywya, after compiling and recompiling KDE about 3 times, mysql
> twice, qt 3 times and a few utilities I started to think that before
> installing a program, I'd rather just see the "configure --help" options
> and decide what I wanted and what I didn't... this use flag business is
> kinda trickie... I couldn't imagine trying to code to take it all into
> account. Has there ever been talk to get rid of use flags and tackle
> optional package params in a different way?
> 

The logical would have been:

  - I want a server, so no X, sound, KDE, Gnome, etc, so add
    to USE: -X -gnome -kde -xv -alsa -oss -esd -avi -mikmod -mpeg
            -oggvorbis -opengl -qt -quicktime -sdl -spell -svga
            -truetype -xmms
  - It will be samba print server, so we need cups, so add: cups
  - etc

So USE will be:

USE="-X -gnome -kde -xv -alsa -oss -esd -avi -mikmod -mpeg -oggvorbis
-opengl -qt -quicktime -sdl -spell -svga -truetype -xmms"

No cups is needed, as its already in the default USE flags.  What
those are, look at:

  /etc/make.profile/make.defaults

Note that you should not edit this file by hand.

  
Regards,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa