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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:15:03PM -0700, lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com wrote |
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> > make an emerge --newuse --ask world after you have finished. |
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> I'm not doing that again! Last time I tried that.... one night, |
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> all day long, and it only did 38 of 283 packages or something. |
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> It was *horrible.* |
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> Next time I try that, I'll totally exit KDE and do it 100% from the |
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> command line so as to make sure every single last shred of memory |
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> is there to do it. Even then, it'll be over a very long vacation. |
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> However, I will start perfecting my setting now, so that when I |
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> update/install new things they reflect changes to make the system |
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> faster! |
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The final USE settings are a combination of system defaults and your |
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USE variable. In your case it's... |
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USE=" X a52 aac alsa apache2 acpi arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 |
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cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba eds directfb doc dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc |
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emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb |
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force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gcj gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer |
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gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardened idn imlib ipv6 jpeg java javascript kde |
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kdexdeltas kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mhash mng |
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motif mozilla mime mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre |
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pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session |
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simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl sse sse2 svg tcltk tcpd tiff |
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tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb udev userland_GNU vorbis |
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x86 xml xml2 xmms xsl xv zlib" |
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Note that USE controls *OPTIONAL* stuff. If package A *REQUIRES* |
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package B, "emerge A" will attempt to build package B first regardless |
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of what you put in USE. Optional stuff means additional functionality. |
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E.g. you can build gimp with "-jpeg -tiff" and it'll still handle other |
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types of graphics. The "mmx sse" flags speed up computations by any app |
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that can use it. Those apps will still run with "-mmx -sse", but slower. |
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Let's just say that I strongly disagree with some of the defaults that |
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the developers have chosen. There is a way to take matters into your |
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own hands, and over-ride the defaults. That is done by putting "-*" at |
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the beginning of USE, like so... |
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USE="-*" |
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and then adding only the stuff that you need. In your case, you may |
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find it easier to re-install from scratch one of these days. I'll deal |
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with the flags in functional groups. Here are my settings. Yours may |
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vary depending on your hardware ("3dnow" is AMD-specific) and any |
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programs that require specific settings. |
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USE="-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr |
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dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir |
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mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin |
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offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl |
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sharedmem slang sockets sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype vcd vorbis |
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win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib" |
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In addition, I have some custom settings in /etc/portage/package.use |
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app-emulation/qemu softmmu |
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app-misc/mc -X |
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app-mobilephone/gnokii sms |
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# If it doesn't have the "motif" flag, xpdf only installs its libs, |
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# but *NOT* the executable... oops. |
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app-text/xpdf motif |
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media-gfx/gimp doc |
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media-gfx/imagemagick doc |
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media-libs/win32codecs real |
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media-video/mplayer custom-cflags i8x0 real 3dnowext mmxext |
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net-misc/wget ssl |
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net-nntp/slrn uudeview |
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# Greatly cuts down on multi-lingual garbage |
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sys-libs/glibc userlocales |
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www-client/w3m -X -imlib |
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x11-base/xorg-x11 bitmap-fonts font-server truetype-fonts type1-fonts |
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# If it's going to be a rescue package, it damn well better work |
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# standalone when libraries get screwed up. |
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sys-apps/busybox static |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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