Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 12/02/2013 01:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> What new stuff did you get?
> As best I can remember: a handful of bluetooth stuff, openldap,
> consolekit, policykit, thunar, wxwidgets, libnotify, fam, a bunch of
> gst plugins, and another dozen or two things pulled in by those.
> 
>> > Did you change your profile to 13.0 and now have a ton of USE flags set
>> > on that were previously off?
> It didn't occur to me until afterwards, but yes, the "new" USE flags
> did correspond with the change to a 13.0 desktop profile.  I'm now
> wondering if my 10.0 profile was the non-desktop "generic" one.  When
> I saw all the "new" USE flags, my assumption was that the USE flags
> had just been added -- but now I'm betting they were newly enabled by
> the 13.0 profile.
> 


That is almost certainly the profile change to 13.0

You had a more minimal profile than a desktop one, and selected a new
desktop profile. The system then worked as designed and helpfully
offered you a whole bunch of new stuff. Desktop profiles are designed to
provide most of what the average desktop user would want.

You are a minimalist kind of guy, right? Basic wm, no frills, no
semantic-desktop and other integration nonsense?

I recommend you change the profile again to the desktop one's parent,
probably

default/linux/amd64/13.0

Then add in just the USE flags that you want. It's always easier to add
what you want to a system rather than removing what you don't.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com