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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:58:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10609201458m3efa42eei4af9efa999085f15@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060920232904.70013935@localhost>

> > 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
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-20 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-20 21:29 Fw: [gentoo-user] Whole lotta minimal Jan-Hendrik Zab
2006-09-20 21:58 ` Grant [this message]
2006-09-21  0:22   ` Ryan Tandy
2006-09-21  0:33   ` Harm Geerts

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