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

[Ryan Tandy <tarpman@tarpman.homelinux.com>]

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" ?
> 
> - Grant

app-editors/vim: I already know how to use vim, so I don't need 
vimtutor, and I can live without help files installed locally
net-misc/dhcp: I get my DHCP server from a different package, so no 
point building dhcpd
sys-libs/ncurses: don't want a zillion obscure terminal types installed 
in terminfo that I've never heard of

I wouldn't put minimal in make.conf - it's too easy to trip over.
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