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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:28:47PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The package defaults have gotten out of hand, in my opinion. I use |
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> > default/linux/amd64/10.0 on all my machines and my /etc/portage/package.use |
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> > directories have dozens of -flag entries for packages with ridiculous |
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> > defaults, and almost none that come from the profile. I'm considering |
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> > removing pkginternal from USE_ORDER. |
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> And this is the problem with having the default profile be really |
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> minimal. It just moves the problem into per-package defaults that are |
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> much more painful to override. |
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I don't think changing the profile is the solution. I doubt that |
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dozens of maintainers will immediately unset unwanted default USE flags |
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simply because the default profile is made more bloated. As I mentioned |
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in a previous message, my personal experience is that it's actually less |
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work to start with "-*", and add as required, rather than to use |
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defaults and then hack and slash at the unwanted stuff. |
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Mind you, as per my sig, I run ICEWM and leave the extra ram for |
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useful applications. We may simply have to admit that we can't please |
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everybody. I suggest a "minimal" profile instead. It would boot to a |
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text console, and have networking and portage, allowing you to build |
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further. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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