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Grant wrote: |
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>> > Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or |
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>> > point me toward a link? Is USE="minimal" in make.conf the kind of |
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>> > thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the |
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>> > kind of thing you shouldn't do unless you have a specific reason to. |
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>> > |
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>> > - Grant |
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>> The second one, but I can't come up with any possible reason for doing |
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>> so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning, |
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>> which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one |
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>> application and turn off one of the most useful in another. |
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>> |
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>> So don't gamble with it. :) |
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> Ok, good to know. Can anyone report any packages they prefer to run |
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> with USE="minimal" ? |
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> - Grant |
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app-editors/vim: I already know how to use vim, so I don't need |
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vimtutor, and I can live without help files installed locally |
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net-misc/dhcp: I get my DHCP server from a different package, so no |
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point building dhcpd |
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sys-libs/ncurses: don't want a zillion obscure terminal types installed |
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in terminfo that I've never heard of |
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I wouldn't put minimal in make.conf - it's too easy to trip over. |
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