From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mlp9A-0003UG-BI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:17:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FDE2E08D5; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2115BE08D5 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC7E6715B for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:17:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.21 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.21 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.611, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SI40pmvxlPZH for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9C667673 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mlp8x-0005ca-32 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:17:19 +0200 Received: from athedsl-384695.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.54.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:17:19 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-384695.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:17:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: flags on a minimalist server Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:16:53 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <92ad22480909091216h4eeac997u6a918f2708eb5537@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-384695.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1f704254-36ed-493a-b919-2485b39591e1 X-Archives-Hash: 2ba18a9d17eb168672759f5e758efd1b On 09/10/2009 01:17 AM, James wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > > >> Ebuils that need xml support don't have a USE flag for it. Only those >> where it's optional. > > > Hello Nikos, > > What about the -threads flag. Can I live without it? > > caveat for a minimal firewall? The "threads" flag depends on the specific packages. Some packages=20 provide multithreading support (improves performance on=20 multi-core/multi-CPU machines). You need to check with each specific=20 package on whether it considers threads as a good idea or not. That=20 pretty much means you should not set it in make.conf, but rather for=20 each specific package. As Cr=EDstian mentioned, for Python you should=20 leave it as-is. For other packages, you need to check first. The docs=20 or the package's homepage or its mailing list/forum might be a good=20 starting point.