[gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?

[gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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It seems quite a few packages are using the 'minimal' USE flag now:

app-admin/webmin:webmin-minimal - Install the minimal webmin
distribution
app-editors/vim:minimal - Build vim with minimal features,
resulting in a ~430K binary
net-analyzer/net-snmp:minimal - Installs only the libs/daemons needed to
be snmp monitored
net-www/drupal:minimal- Disables installing the additional plugins
sys-apps/iproute2:minimal - Builds and installs only the traffic control
util.
x11-base/xorg-x11:minimal - Build without fonts, clients and some other
things

Probably worth making it a global USE flag. How's the following sound
for a description?

minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins,
fonts, non-critical features)

For anyone else planning to use this flag, please only use it if it's a
realllllly minimal build. The original package to use this was vim, and
vim's minimal build turns off syntax highlighting, visual mode, multiple
window support, proper terminal support, multibyte characters,
completion, diff support, folding and a whole load of other stuff that I
can't think of off the top of my head.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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Hi,

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:36 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Probably worth making it a global USE flag. How's the following sound
> for a description?
> 
> minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins,
> fonts, non-critical features)

Sounds like a good idea to me.

> For anyone else planning to use this flag, please only use it if it's a
> realllllly minimal build. The original package to use this was vim, and
> vim's minimal build turns off syntax highlighting, visual mode, multiple
> window support, proper terminal support, multibyte characters,
> completion, diff support, folding and a whole load of other stuff that I
> can't think of off the top of my head.

I am planning on adding the minimal USE flag to the upcoming inclusion
of net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre2 to build a minimal footprint
version of the tools (new feature as of 28.pre2).

Sincerely,
Brix
-- 
Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:36:02 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Probably worth making it a global USE flag.

No complaints, several in favour, so it's done.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?

[Ned Ludd]

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On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:59, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:36 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Probably worth making it a global USE flag. How's the following sound
> > for a description?
> > 
> > minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins,
> > fonts, non-critical features)
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me.
> 
> > For anyone else planning to use this flag, please only use it if it's a
> > realllllly minimal build. The original package to use this was vim, and
> > vim's minimal build turns off syntax highlighting, visual mode, multiple
> > window support, proper terminal support, multibyte characters,
> > completion, diff support, folding and a whole load of other stuff that I
> > can't think of off the top of my head.
> 
> I am planning on adding the minimal USE flag to the upcoming inclusion
> of net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre2 to build a minimal footprint
> version of the tools (new feature as of 28.pre2).

*sigh* 
Please do not use minimal for wireless-tools for 'multicall'
functionality. This type of functionality should use the multicall use
flag as dropbear does and more programs in the tree will over time.


> Sincerely,
> Brix
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded) Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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Hi,

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 17:48 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> *sigh* 
> Please do not use minimal for wireless-tools for 'multicall'
> functionality. This type of functionality should use the multicall use
> flag as dropbear does and more programs in the tree will over time.

Just checking - was the addition of this new 'multicall' USE flag
discussed anywhere public?

Sincerely,
Brix
-- 
Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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