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On 03/08/2019 18:32, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> So far so good. The basic system is installed and booting. One |
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> question... can I just set the "bindist" USE flag globally. |
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Usually you unset it globally. If you allow some of the packages to be |
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built with it, you're going to lose some functionality due to |
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redistribution legal nonsense. On a personal system where you install |
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packages without the intent to redistribute them to others, you want |
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that flag disabled globally. |
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For example in freetype you lose ClearType support. In Firefox it will |
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replace the logo and possibly the name with something else. Openssh will |
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disable patented algorithms. |
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Some packages will not fine-tune their performance to your CPU and |
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instead do generic optimizations. |
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TL;DR: you don't want to enable bindist. Better disable it globally. |
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