Re: Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal

[Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>]

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:58, Grant wrote:
> > > Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or
> > > point me toward a link?  Is USE="minimal" in make.conf the kind of
> > > thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the
> > > kind of thing you shouldn't do unless you have a specific reason to.
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > The second one, but I can't come up with any possible reason for doing
> > so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning,
> > which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one
> > application and turn off one of the most useful in another.
> >
> > So don't gamble with it. :)
>
> Ok, good to know.  Can anyone report any packages they prefer to run
> with USE="minimal" ?

xorg-server on a headless system.
It allows you to install X dependent packages and run them remotely (over ssh) 
without having to install the complete X server. (you can also disable 
the "xorg" flag since you won't need any input/output drivers)

mysql on a client system.
This only installs the libraries that are needed for clients.
For instance if you need your apache/php webserver to talk to mysql but have 
no need for a local mysqlserver.
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