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 33E19138A1F for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 513AEE0DBA; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54139E0D9C for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:02:37 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoQu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEFOhwzCxgJExIPBSU3iBHBLY1hTYF7YQOIYYUdiA6FfohwgV6Cais X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoQu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEFOhwzCxgJExIPBSU3iBHBLY1hTYF7YQOIYYUdiA6FfohwgV6Cais X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="46225793" Received: from 76-10-132-46.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.132.46]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2014 23:02:35 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:02:32 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:02:32 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably Message-ID: <20140128040232.GA1866@waltdnes.org> References: <20140126162426.7a6d1f30@falcon.eroen.eu> <52E54920.5010207@gmail.com> <52E54E34.7080709@gentoo.org> <52E5543B.4070808@gmail.com> <52E556F0.3040908@gentoo.org> <20140126232619.GA9429@laptop.home> <20140128004125.GA29765@waltdnes.org> 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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 4d03fb7d-e93a-45a3-9434-92a8e9c42390 X-Archives-Hash: a4f444e82d570b38c037ea5ff0f307c3 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:42:22AM +0000, Martin Vaeth wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > USE="-* ${USECPU} ${USEOTHER}" > > > > If you want to look at it that way, what I've > > really done is to replace the default USE flag set with my own defaults > > ... *including* the defaults specified in individual ebuilds. > About the default flags in profiles one may argue, but the > ebuild-enabled defaults are usually very decent and strongly > encouraged by upstream. > For this reason using "-Flag" in make.conf should better > be used sparringly: Unless you are sure that you want to disable > a particular feature really *globally*, it is better to turn it off > in /etc/portage/package.use for each package separately so that > packages which you might install in some future (or which add this > flag in some future) do not have already changed their default. I ran into that with the "suid" flag in xorg-server. I enabled "suid" for xorg-server in package.use. Then a couple of other packages started needing it. I test ran... USE="suid" emerge -pv --deep --changed-use --update @world ...and no additional packages (beyond the ones I wanted) needed to be rebuilt. That's when I moved "suid" into make.conf. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications