From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QLHNT-0007Md-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:07:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E2C11C0C2; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3FBB1C0C2 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so1553076gxk.40 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 09:01:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=xgrRhG+Z0lqGkNPZXwfUqb9weOzDMlXs/T8IQ4BMfXk=; b=D2yFIL23eq4Htev9uqDGOTJyB/GQQhheaNOAwT+UhDsXkSMRUVAEvAilQJkbtXIxIa BDtjz3vHRdWuH+2OtVm7SQXBdKrETRO1O+c0P/DTo+Ow6iF0Djb/KdZpDOWoK9ltvC/J RmWIH0d+vYHncxOyaS2OI8Yxi4vELrgU5jCbg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=mAwS/ptJSccGPRFbLuVc5n7uYwPznih+lsr0Z7+Qomg3it8kM+tU8VxBdFJYAsyxHi XFN751WrpVchyxm0qwpy0JeCu8qkY5HNg+EZsmrrw3xx5k1im+olVPVtRh+r11IQp20M gfXtO3JLC7M94CB8EvpIV3Y/KBDZyuN+GdFBU= Received: by 10.150.96.11 with SMTP id t11mr2204411ybb.35.1305388885465; Sat, 14 May 2011 09:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari (adsl-72-152-84-26.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.84.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w19sm819086ybe.25.2011.05.14.09.01.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 May 2011 09:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 12:01:20 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) Message-ID: <20110514160120.GA31094@gaurahari> References: <20110514143708.GA10155@gaurahari> <201105141753.57295.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201105141753.57295.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d4b286c43e4882b6eb67e67758171e94 On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did= opine=20 > thusly: >=20 > >=20 > > True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up > > building the gtk interface for absolutely everything which has that > > option. > > Far better (IMO, YMMV) is to use /etc/portage/package.use specify suc= h > > things per package. Unless, of course, you like having a gtk GUI for > > everything. > >=20 > > :)=20 >=20 > No, it is much better to enable such a flag globally and *disable* it u= sing=20 > package.use where you do *not* want it. >=20 > Personally, I have better things to do than examine every new or change= d=20 > package that shows up after avuND world and edit package.us for every s= ingle=20 > flag in that huge list. > Sounds like the old "6 of one, a half-dozen of the other" to me... What makes the subtractive method better? --=20 caveat utilitor=20 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB=20