Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="acl" in profiles

[Thomas Matthijs <axxo@gentoo.org>]

* Robert Moss (robmoss@gentoo.org) wrote:
> >>Glad your able to save a few cpu cycles and QA becomes much cleaner and
> >>simpler for/by default.
> >
> >
> >Definitely.  In fact, I had tried to remove the acl/attr packages at one
> >point and it broke things like "ls", so needless to say I was a bit
> >miffed.  My current stance on the LiveCD is any byte saved is one less
> >byte wasted on the mirrors.
> 
> Just a note on this. Unpack a stage3 tarball. "emerge ufed". Set your 
> USE flags, noting that acl isn't really very useful anyway and dropping 
> it. Do an "emerge depclean". Watch your stage3 eat itself alive.
> 
> And yes, I have done this loooooads of times, and had to retrieve 
> libacl.so and libattr.so from the LiveCD.

acl isn't even on by default, so you don't have to remove it accidently
just unpacking a stage3 and running depclean will break it

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