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From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:59:34
Message-Id: 1101207551.12393.17.camel@sponge.fungus
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Hi,
2
3 On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:36 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > Probably worth making it a global USE flag. How's the following sound
5 > for a description?
6 >
7 > minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins,
8 > fonts, non-critical features)
9
10 Sounds like a good idea to me.
11
12 > For anyone else planning to use this flag, please only use it if it's a
13 > realllllly minimal build. The original package to use this was vim, and
14 > vim's minimal build turns off syntax highlighting, visual mode, multiple
15 > window support, proper terminal support, multibyte characters,
16 > completion, diff support, folding and a whole load of other stuff that I
17 > can't think of off the top of my head.
18
19 I am planning on adding the minimal USE flag to the upcoming inclusion
20 of net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre2 to build a minimal footprint
21 version of the tools (new feature as of 28.pre2).
22
23 Sincerely,
24 Brix
25 --
26 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
27 Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: minimal? Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>