Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

["Vincent A. Primavera" <vincent.primavera@ralphpill.com>]

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

Hello,
        I found this below at 
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11993814: USE="-* tcpd crypt ssl pam 
ncurses zlib readline".  Does it look as minimalistic *and* safe as 
possible?
--
        Thank you,

        Vincent A. Primavera.
        Director of Information Technology.
        Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co.
 

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