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 1DuZd7-0003wY-Bf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:42:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IHbsjM024704; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:37:54 GMT Received: from ralphpill.com (ralphpill.com [141.149.165.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IHO0mE005627 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:24:00 GMT Received: from DELVAPBOS ([192.168.1.5]) by ralphpill.com (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with SMTP id j6IHRHO102494 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:27:17 -0400 Message-ID: <043301c58bbd$98e76af0$0501a8c0@DELVAPBOS> From: "Vincent A. Primavera" To: References: <041301c58bb9$eae89990$0501a8c0@DELVAPBOS> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags... Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:24:47 -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=response 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: abe68df9-ea73-43ff-b078-cab8be60c0ce X-Archives-Hash: 9d4ccedde6b8681d4193021c7b267744 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list