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From: Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:17:38
Message-Id: 44D8A873.6080704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax by Enrico Weigelt
1 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Jan Kundrat <jkt@g.o> schrieb:
3 >> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
4 >>> For example: I've got several headless server systems where I now
5 >>> have to run some X applications. I only need xlib (and its deps)
6 >>> on this system, not the whole X distribution. In a monolithic
7 >>> world, I would have to install *everything*, from server to tools,
8 >>> just for getting some libs.
9 >> Or you could have used the "minimal" USE flag.
10 >
11 > And what does this flag exactly say at this point ?
12 >
13 > Install only xlib ?
14 > Install xlib and some further ones ? Which ones ?
15 > Install all libs ?
16
17 Opening an ebuild and reading it must be hard.
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