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On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:59, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:36 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > Probably worth making it a global USE flag. How's the following sound |
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> > for a description? |
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> > minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, |
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> > fonts, non-critical features) |
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> Sounds like a good idea to me. |
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> > For anyone else planning to use this flag, please only use it if it's a |
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> > realllllly minimal build. The original package to use this was vim, and |
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> > vim's minimal build turns off syntax highlighting, visual mode, multiple |
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> > window support, proper terminal support, multibyte characters, |
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> > completion, diff support, folding and a whole load of other stuff that I |
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> > can't think of off the top of my head. |
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> I am planning on adding the minimal USE flag to the upcoming inclusion |
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> of net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre2 to build a minimal footprint |
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> version of the tools (new feature as of 28.pre2). |
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*sigh* |
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Please do not use minimal for wireless-tools for 'multicall' |
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functionality. This type of functionality should use the multicall use |
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flag as dropbear does and more programs in the tree will over time. |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Brix |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded) Developer |
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