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 4.43) id 1DuXpo-0006QU-8j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:47:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IFieGN011981; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:44:40 GMT Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IFbCxj002256 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:37:12 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.154.173]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJT0082JY3DI8S2@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:38:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334157028; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:39:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cornholio [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15420-10; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cdnebinge (jnet.state.pa.us [206.224.31.162]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:38:34 -0400 From: "Dave Nebinger" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags... In-reply-to: <00c801c58bac$cbc94c10$0501a8c0@DELVAPBOS> To: Cc: Message-id: <005d01c58bae$c2fd2eb0$5f01010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; h=Received:Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:X-MimeOLE:Importance:X-Virus-Scanned; b=V0N0StutN+gROjnyFJ7oGGfHtwPN0buLHLnrDfImqPLTqq/3MXYL3DDIz1NiklCCO6BI9GQvUYsgfWOVnHzoLu7QGd4H7OkZj5QcCviajeHYDvZUxPYiWJzqnV7ZbOd1wTn1YtPz41BBRGoM5bdOCnty3N4NLKiq0UJyu3Y5Mec=; c=nofws; d=joat.com; q=dns; s=selector1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.1 (20050509) at joat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6IFbCxj002256 X-Archives-Salt: db8935c5-7497-421f-93ce-4baa8bf25586 X-Archives-Hash: 6342888b3624bda618168877172c851c > I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. > Any suggestions? Your problem is going to be the incremental enabling thing you'd like to do. If you add a new USE flag later on, you need to emerge with the newuse flag which will result in a larger emerge than what you expect. For example, if you build your system then add the alsa use flag and emerge with newuse, you'll basically be rebuilding X, kde and/or gnome, etc. A huge task for such a simple flag addition. Your best bet is to determine the use flags that you intend on using in the final system and be selective about what you emerge to keep the system size under control. Unless, of course, you don't mind recompiling big parts of the system for use case changes... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list