From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdCAs-0001hR-B7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAIJiIYB026095; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:44:18 GMT Received: from jaguar.lieber.org (jaguar.lieber.org [217.160.252.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAIJf6Za028455 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:41:06 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jaguar.lieber.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135F529D721 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jaguar.lieber.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jaguar.lieber.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25853-11 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by jaguar.lieber.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 35DE329D723; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:25 +0000 From: Kurt Lieber To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Message-ID: <20051118194525.GG12982@mail.lieber.org> References: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> <20051118154312.GF24327@toucan.gentoo.org> <1726602389.20051118165931@gentoo.org> <20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com> <20051118193130.71ded639@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051118193130.71ded639@snowdrop.home> X-GPG-Key: http://www.lieber.org/kurtl.pub.gpg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lieber.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.899 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-3.3, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -5.899 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 92813e2f-2e7b-4af2-bfc7-ab6d737e5e1f X-Archives-Hash: b21e8c1baa89f541360187fc8cc69757 --ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 07:31:30PM +0000 or thereabouts, Ciaran McCreesh wr= ote: > | Put USE=3D"-* oneuse twouse reduse blueuse" in make.conf to set the > | globals, and _then_ start tweaking in "package.use". >=20 > ...and then watch your system explode because you didn't set various > USE flags which should only be turned off on embedded systems. We've been using the USE=3D"-* foo bar" method on all of our infrastructure servers since as far back as I can remember and have never had a problem as a result. Not trying to fan the flames one way or the other -- just stating a fact. --kurt --ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDfi9VJPpRNiftIEYRAoWlAJwL/Q2kcRs4IB/HyKe9KguD03O2FgCfTjPT PUt6XeB4mWXuFIkOcPa7fhQ= =QfF+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list