[gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:52:54 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/04/2015 03:38, »Q« wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:24:48 -0400
> > Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:

> >> Also, using the KDE profile and having USE="-*" seem contrary. One
> >> of the main reasons to use a profile is to get a relevant set of
> >> USE flags.
> > 
> > I don't want the profile's USE flags, but I still thought it best to
> > select the profile that matches what I use the machine for.
>  
> A profile is indeed intended to match the intended use of the machine,
> and to do that it does two things:
> 
> - enables or disables some software (the minor feature)
> - sets some sane default USE (the major feature)
> 
> USE="-*" essentially undoes the profile entirely rendering it useless.
> You'd be better off just setting your profile to default and doing all
> the heavy lifting yourself instead of going with the maintainers
> suggestions implemented in the profile.

I rarely have to mess with changing USE flags as it is now, but setting
them up from scratch (something I haven't done in many years) after
clobbering the profile's defaults was heavy lifting, for me at least.
If I ever have to do it again, I'll check out using a simpler profile
without clobbering its USE.