Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

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maillog: 18/08/2005-16:28:40(+0200): Christian Parpart types
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> Using the "minimal" useflag for this - IMHO - is a misuse of the idea of 
> "minimal" semantically - as I do understand minimal in a way like "don't 
> overbloat me with patches and other feature additions"-alike.

minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins,
          fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)
vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour

The way you understand "minimal" seems to be closer to what "vanilla" is
used for. By "feature additions" I assume that you mean "extra
functionality added by patches".

Note the subtle difference -- "minimal" disables default functionality
(provided upstream) while "vanilla" disables patched-in functionality.

Of course, there is the "server" use flag that mysql could use with
great success.

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