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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:08:40PM +0000, James wrote |
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> »Q« <boxcars <at> gmx.net> writes: |
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> > tl;dr: Getting rid of USE="-*" was a lot easier than I'd expected. A |
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> > little rebuilding, a lot of (easy) USE flag pruning, and I'm done. |
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> > Until yesterday, I've had USE="-*" for years. |
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> I've only used (USE="-*") for small systems like firewalls, devices, |
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> or other minimized servers. If you think about it, most of us, |
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> on a workstation, what everything that will work. The exception being |
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> somebody with meager resources or other minimizations that warrant constraint. |
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I used to use USE='-* blah blah blah", where "blah blah blah" was a |
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lot of flags. My rule of thumb was to compare... |
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* how many "foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use if I didn't |
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include "foobar" in make.conf, versus... |
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* how many "-foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use if I did |
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include "foobar" in make.conf |
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Which ever way resulted in fewer entries in package.use was the way |
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I'd go. I effectively built my own custom profile. I've now switched |
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to the conventional style, without "-*", but I now have a lot of |
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"-foobar" flags in USE, like so... |
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USE="10bit 12bit X apng bindist ffmpeg gles2 jpeg netifrc png snappy szip truetype x264 x265 xorg -acl -berkdb -caps -chatzilla -cracklib -crypt -filecaps -gallium -gdbm -gmp-autoupdate -graphite -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -manpager -nls -openmp -pam -pch -roaming -sendmail -spell -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -upower -uuid -xinerama" |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |