From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Recent changes to install procedure
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 19:18:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qi4c4u$3e62$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190803153220.GA7502@waltdnes.org>
On 03/08/2019 18:32, Walter Dnes wrote:
> So far so good. The basic system is installed and booting. One
> question... can I just set the "bindist" USE flag globally.
Usually you unset it globally. If you allow some of the packages to be
built with it, you're going to lose some functionality due to
redistribution legal nonsense. On a personal system where you install
packages without the intent to redistribute them to others, you want
that flag disabled globally.
For example in freetype you lose ClearType support. In Firefox it will
replace the logo and possibly the name with something else. Openssh will
disable patented algorithms.
Some packages will not fine-tune their performance to your CPU and
instead do generic optimizations.
TL;DR: you don't want to enable bindist. Better disable it globally.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-03 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-03 4:24 [gentoo-user] Recent changes to install procedure Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 6:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-03 16:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2019-08-03 16:31 ` Dale
2019-08-03 17:10 ` Ian Zimmerman
2019-08-03 17:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-03 15:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 15:45 ` Dale
2019-08-03 16:04 ` Mick
2019-08-03 16:15 ` Dale
2019-08-03 17:13 ` Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 17:35 ` Dale
2019-08-03 18:39 ` Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-03 16:18 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
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