Re: [gentoo-amd64] recommended USE flags

[Sam Barlow]

For researching the USE flags I use I went to http://gentoo-portage.com/

I decided what applications I was going to run looked-up their
dependancies and set my flags based on that.  It also made in much
easier to move the bulk of the flags from make.conf to package.use
[Making some flags not so Global]

On 8/11/06, Dan Clark <danielmclark@×××××.com> wrote:
> Also, check on the gentoo wiki for the use flag how-to that explains what
> they are all for. Honestly you don't need that many use flags. The problem
> for you now is that you have you system built, which means you may have a
> large number of unnecessary addons to many packages, also you may have
> complete packages which are not needed. IMHO, depending on how far along
> your system build is, it might be easier to re-install the system then to
> trim down a  huge number of use flags.
>
>
> On 8/11/06, Ahmed Ammar <b33fc0d3@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Have you looked at make.conf.example ?
> >
> > On 11/08/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <rafael@××××××××××××××××.ar> wrote:
> > > Hello people, i installed a Gentoo 2006.0 with a LiveCD and i noticed
> > > make.conf is full of USE flags (a lot of em really) which every now and
> > > then cause emerges to merge a lot of packages that i dont need, so i
> > > wanted to ask if there is an advisable minimum set of flags that i could
> > > use.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Rafael
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