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 1Mlkqm-0000EG-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8B04E0662; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FD7E0662 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C36265666 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.493 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.493 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.106, 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 3N7rqG5GA7HQ for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:08 +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 BB3A2675BF for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlkqX-0007rt-AH for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:01 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:01 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: flags on a minimalist server Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <92ad22480909091216h4eeac997u6a918f2708eb5537@mail.gmail.com> <92ad22480909100414u53f7b5e7o3f2877a61592a6a4@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=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090820 SeaMonkey/1.1.17) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cd763f08-946c-433c-b134-1a144d2e15d2 X-Archives-Hash: e95abcb790298e7cf58cd0c87f24549c Cr=C3=ADstian Viana gmail.com> writes: > Ebuils that need xml support don't have a USE flag for it. Only those = where it's optional. > python has optional XML support, but gentoolkit needs that feature.--=20 OK I got the xml flag issue resolved, but what about the "threads" flag"? >From my original post: USE=3D"-* -nls mmx hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre = \ python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog" so nptl and nptlonly flags are set. -* means most other flags are unset. To rebuild python, it want the xml flag set for gentoolkit (got it). But also it shows "-threads" flag as not set.=20 dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1 USE=3D"berkdb ncurses readline ssl -build -doc -examples -gdbm* -ipv6* -sqlite -threads* -tk -ucs2 -wininst = -xml*" Is this a good idea or bad idea to leave the "-threads" flag unset in rebuilding python or any other package on this mostly iptables firewal= l? (even though nptl and nptlonly are set) ???? Where can I read up on the flags in some detail? James