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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:34:43
Message-Id: 43B0990B.2080304@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning by Lares Moreau
1 Lares Moreau wrote:
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4 >I'm relatively ignorant of USE Flag intricacies, so please forgive me if
5 >things don't 'fit'.
6 >
7 >
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10 Ditto for me. I have a question or two. I have servers that have no
11 GUI at all. I just use them to run folding on. Would I benefit from
12 puting in USE="-*" in my USE line? I have been reading this thread and
13 am learning a bit about how this works. It seems that by default Gentoo
14 users do not have as much control as one would think. At least not
15 until you learn how to override the defaults. That may be good for a
16 noobie though. I'm not complaining, just saying that some need the
17 extra hand at first and then as you mature you learn how to override the
18 defaults. I think I just did that by the way. Still to chicken to try
19 it though. :\ I need more "guruness" in me first. LOL
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21 Keep up the good work. Oh, answer to the questions would be nice too. :-)
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23 Dale
24 :-)
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28 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
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30 I have four rigs:
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32 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
33 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
34 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
35 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
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37 All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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