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 1DuZ1E-0007rg-PE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:03:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IH1K4R015793; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:01:20 GMT Received: from ralphpill.com (ralphpill.com [141.149.165.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IGve32009610 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:57:40 GMT Received: from DELVAPBOS ([192.168.1.5]) by ralphpill.com (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with SMTP id j6IH0vO135026 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:00:57 -0400 Message-ID: <041301c58bb9$eae89990$0501a8c0@DELVAPBOS> From: "Vincent A. Primavera" To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags... Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:58:27 -0400 Organization: Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. 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 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Archives-Salt: 1bb64a9d-6803-4687-9f4c-25dac8b36b79 X-Archives-Hash: 0095448e85394d319ac01d9cc2cf24b5 Vincent A. Primavera wrote: > Hello, > Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach > to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags > enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you > would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I > would prefer to install less upfront and add on later as needed. > Doing an `emerge -pv $packagename` then looking through the > dependencies and their USE flags each time, to me, doesn't seem like > the best method. I took a look at the list of USE flags at > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE and disabling dozens of them in > /etc/make.conf doesn't seem like a great method either. I'm trying to > avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any > suggestions? > -- > Thank you, > > Vincent A. Primavera. > Director of Information Technology. > Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. > Hi, > Recently there was such discussion, only about the default USE-flags (in > current profile). > By memory the solution was: "-* only desired USE-flags here, ex. alsa > crypt readline ..." in '/etc/make.conf' > "-*" disables quite all (only all optional w/o the required ones) and > turns ON the USE-flags following it. > PS: watch out there are 2-3 flags which are absolutely required for a > sane system, check ML-archive (readline is one). > HTH. Rumen Hello, This looks like what I am leaning towards. Now I just have to find out what those few critical flags are ;o} Thanks all! -- Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list