[gentoo-dev] USE flags groups

[Herbert Fischer]

I see that the USE flags list is very big today but I don't know if
it's growing too fast. So, I may think that someday Gentoo will need
some mechanism to facilitate USE flags configuration.

I suggest the creation of a "USE flags grouping mechanism" to help the
decision making of configuring make.conf when doing initial setup or
somewhere else. For example: If we want a web server with Apache, "PHP
with all functions" and MySQL we could place one single flag like AMP
(Apache+MySQL+PHP) on make.conf, or if we want a desktop machine with
full support to imaging and media encoding we could place one single
flag like "MULTIMEDIA" on make.conf and voilá.

I have lots of friends that hates taking hours selecting "packages"
during other distributions installations or configuring things like
this (that takes very long time to see every option/flag) and I think
idea this could bring a very quick Gentoo pre-install.

What do you think?

PS.: Sorry for my "english"...

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