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 9D692138A1F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22E0FE0EBA; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 207CBE0BBB for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-4db0fbae.pool.mediaWays.net [77.176.251.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0995033F62D for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52E646A5.3060203@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:44:37 +0100 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably 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> In-Reply-To: <20140126232619.GA9429@laptop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b417f444-dd0a-47fb-9458-4fffa39c9080 X-Archives-Hash: dac82a5b676f67763da001da57eba904 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/27/2014 12:26 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:41:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote: >> Starting with USE="-*" on a server (which is a sane thing to do) >> has become a lot more difficult as well. > > No, starting with USE="-*" is very dangerous. It is not recommended > nor supported, in any setup, by the dev community. If you do it, > you are solely responsible for your system and you get to keep the > broken pieces when things do not work. A safer approach would be to > turn off the specific use flags you do not want to support. > > William > That's nonsense imo and I use that setup on multiple servers/routers without any issues. It makes sense because you have the most minimal setup possible, the most minimal codepaths possible which reduces exposure to bugs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS5kalAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWz/DcIAIZtMLZ907iMbqQs71Q2KGoY kKhUavNCg/PxsxnASyRVahf9LBAoJ2ZOya5/V8fcyf5RZEh5M9Jhc05qmEh5FIPU t7jTyRN1P0rCt3WLv/KMrIkszh/0iPWygu7BGio9KsdqxeUtsSdrQ4ylmjiJKyCJ mszFnLmG57ovL/Uv4YB/QWyhRBbxf9Be1Vvv1XLHEKouJNzWeuVBoQtECozYpfp+ tLt5HVm9skvk2pnjlAuiIODT3bVlY0sgXlzBaz0EVHTrnId/EUqsn0U8JpVqOw05 HXRNt2GZtJBJuU6J/q9whvLt/oHl7yZsbilS9LbuWydO5ooAywO27qtuR24OVXc= =L7hT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----