On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:

On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
> Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
>> I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be
>> much appreciated if they could respond here.
>
> I build catalyst stage4s. Any default profiles are kindof pointless
> for me; I have USE=-* and the flags that I want.
>
> Anything else seems a bit too random.

This is why I think we do need something like a truly minimal profile
to start building from. Too many people are doing this.

Remember that we can also modify USE_ORDER to specifically drop profile flags *or* package-default flags, but not necessarily both. Maybe this is something that should be brought "above the table" and documented. It's a lot harder to shoot yourself in the foot by just dropping profile flags, but keeping package defaults.

Of course, that adds another factor to the USE=dri in profile versus package-default discussion, too.

-Ben Kohler