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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:34:04PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote |
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> Hello everyone. |
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> I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! |
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> So far so good! |
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> Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box |
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> and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) |
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> Now I am thinking about managing USE flags. |
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> What if I disable everything in the make.conf ( I mean USE="-*" ) and |
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> gradually add the needed flags to package.use? |
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> I am not trying to have severe control, I just want to expand my knowledge! |
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> thanks. |
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Here is a compromise. I started with USE="-*" and then gradually |
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added stuff that was needed by most items. My rule-of-thumb is... |
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If adding a flag to USE reduces the number of entries in package.use, |
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then I add it. I.e. if... |
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* not having flag "foobar" in USE requires 6 entries in package.use, and |
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* having flag "foobar" in USE requires only 2 "-" entries in package.use |
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...then I move flag "foobar" into USE and put a few "-" entries in |
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package.use. I do want stuff like "ncurses nptl nptlonly posix readline |
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threads" for every app which can use it. Similarly, cpu-specific flags |
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should be in your USE. This effectively gives you a very customized |
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profile. By the way, you can make your own variables in make.conf, and |
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concatenate them, like in bash. In my make.conf I have... |
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USE_BASE="-* a52 aac bzip2 cxx fortran ncurses netifrc nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive openssl posix readline ssl threads vim-syntax zlib" |
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USE_CPU="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3" |
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USE_VIDEO="X dga dri exif ffmpeg flac classic gif intel jpeg mng mp3 mpeg ogg opengl png rtmp theora tiff truetype vorbis xcomposite webm x264 xpm xv xvid xvmc" |
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USE="${USE_BASE} ${USE_CPU} ${USE_VIDEO}" |
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I can mostly copy this to another machine. ***WARNING*** the flags in |
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USE_CPU are specific to, and have to be customized for, each machine. |
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My Dell Dimension 530 dates back to June 2008. Newer Intel machines |
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will have additional cpu-specific flags, and AMD cpus will have their |
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own unique additional flags. Your set of flags may be different, |
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depending on what applications you use, and what you want to do with the |
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machine. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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