On Saturday 02 September 2006 06:23, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 02 September 2006 07:17, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Of course its gentoo and therefore there is yet another approach: > > USE="-* kde qt ....'all flags that you want'" > > This way release changes wouldn't affect your USE flags. > > Or simply don't upgrade your profile until the old profile gets deprecated > and portage starts spitting warnings about it. auto use isn't around > anymore so this is only relevant when upgrading your profile... Thanks guys, I hadn't looked into the 2006.1 directory to see the desktop/server permutations. I am sorry to hear xmms is coming to an end - it has served me really well on my old machines. Is there an accord on a current suitable alternative? I found xmms relatively light on resources compared to say, xine derivatives. -- Regards, Mick