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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:05:28
Message-Id: 20060531145035.0cd1a1fa.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer by "Timothy A. Holmes"
1 Hi,
2
3 On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:49 -0400 "Timothy A. Holmes"
4 <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote:
5
6 > Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP stuff
7 > as BASE requires it.
8
9 What makes you think there's
10 a) a slash-notation in USE flags
11 b) this specific USE flag?
12 "dev-lang/php" really looks like a package specification, not a USE flag.
13
14 And: What is BASE?
15
16 > The -mmx and several of the others are there to keep conky from
17 > pulling in a bunch of stuff as well that it does not need
18
19 When mmx isn't set by default there's no good reason to disable it,
20 right?
21
22 Make sure that you have understood what USE flags really do. As you're
23 talking about a IDS, my suggestion would even be to start with all USE
24 flags unset by default, i.e. your USE variable in /etc/make.conf should
25 start with "-*" then. You'll probably want to add some of these to the
26 default flags, too: nptl nptlonly ssl zlib jpeg png alsa ncurses pic
27 nls pam. You can then specify further package specific refinements
28 in /etc/portage/package.use. For an explanation what is happening at
29 all, see man portage and man make.conf.
30
31 -hwh
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