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 4.54) id 1Er3jf-0006Du-DR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:34:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBR1XE77018156; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:33:14 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ftp.crawdat.com [65.116.46.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBR1TnCU029989 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:29:50 GMT Received: from [205.208.159.11] (JacksonDialPool1.011.ikano.com [205.208.159.11]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBR1X9wT009929 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:33:10 -0600 Message-ID: <43B0990B.2080304@exceedtech.net> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:29:47 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning References: <43AF7B25.6060803@gentoo.org> <20051226153533.695493e4@snowdrop.home> <1962459692.20051226175717@gentoo.org> <1135622183.3203.27.camel@zelda.hyrule> <1135635587.7410.32.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1135635587.7410.32.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5184340c-1d77-4348-8cca-2fee1fb56a9b X-Archives-Hash: 25c2e1431908099830163878cb52012f Lares Moreau wrote: > >I'm relatively ignorant of USE Flag intricacies, so please forgive me if >things don't 'fit'. > > Ditto for me. I have a question or two. I have servers that have no GUI at all. I just use them to run folding on. Would I benefit from puting in USE="-*" in my USE line? I have been reading this thread and am learning a bit about how this works. It seems that by default Gentoo users do not have as much control as one would think. At least not until you learn how to override the defaults. That may be good for a noobie though. I'm not complaining, just saying that some need the extra hand at first and then as you mature you learn how to override the defaults. I think I just did that by the way. Still to chicken to try it though. :\ I need more "guruness" in me first. LOL Keep up the good work. Oh, answer to the questions would be nice too. :-) Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list