From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745C81381F3 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40FFDE09C1; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F93E0969 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:45:03 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/xm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEATocKAsLIRMSDwUlN4gLBsEtjWGCSGEDjX6IDoV+iHCBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/xm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEATocKAsLIRMSDwUlN4gLBsEtjWGCSGEDjX6IDoV+iHCBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="18850087" Received: from 75-119-252-102.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.252.102]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2013 03:44:56 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 03:45:01 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 03:45:01 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing excessive stuff from profile Message-ID: <20130714074501.GA3153@waltdnes.org> References: <51E0DC6B.8050500@wht.com.au> <51E11A01.8090400@gmail.com> <51E17577.3000407@wht.com.au> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51E17577.3000407@wht.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 6b9937d2-5d52-438c-ba43-1c56b82630ae X-Archives-Hash: d775a373bf277b2da6236dd18140ad87 On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:42:47PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote > Taking a lead from this, I went and changed my profile to be the > default, no KDE or gnome, and hey presto, the emerge count went from > about 250 down to about 35. It is currently building now. I start my USE variable with "-*" and add in stuff that I need, i.e. USECPU="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3" USEOTHER=" X a52 aac bzip2 cxx dga dri exif ffmpeg flac fortran gallium gif intel jpeg mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openrc png posix readline ssl theora threads tiff tools truetype vim-syntax vorbis xcomposite webm x264 xpm xv xvid zlib" USE="-* ${USECPU} ${USEOTHER}" ...plus I also have some entries in package.use -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications