[gentoo-user] flag icu

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

Hello,

Q1} In my attempts to minimize flag settings, why do I need the flag "icu" ?

+ - icu   Enable ICU (Internationalization Components for Unicode)
		support, using dev-libs/icu




Q2} Ultimately, I'm trying to discover that minimum of flags for amd64
servers and workstations, that allow them to function nominally
normal, with most flags set per package.use. The bare_bones flags really
work great for gentoo clusters. I'm specifically trying to avoid the
advanced profiles, as I intend to manage flags dynamically as frameworks
(collections of codes) are added or removed from the cluster.


Any hints on a systematic by system parsing this sort of minimized-flag
data :

 [12]  default/linux/amd64/17.0 (stable) *


would be keenly appreciated. "eselect profile list" is great. but
I need it per many different architectures and do not have one
of each of the systems I need to experiment on. How are those flag_sets
discovered in some sort of systematic approach?



James