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On Monday 01 May 2006 11:51 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: |
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> > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" |
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> no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If you |
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> want to use it. Fine. But do not tell anybody else to do it. |
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Why I asked before doing. What is it? |
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> > > MAKEOPTS="" |
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> > MAKEOPTS="-j2" |
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> -j1 is a good one for singlecore/single cpu computer, where the compiling |
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> is running in the background. |
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Okay. That sounds non-violate. |
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> > > USE=" X a52 aac alsa apache2 acpi arts audiofile avi berkdb |
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> > > bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba eds directfb doc dri |
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> > > dvd dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam |
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> > > fastbuild foomaticdb |
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> > > force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gcj gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm |
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> > > gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardened idn imlib ipv6 jpeg java |
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> > > javascript kde kdexdeltas kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit |
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> > > mikmod mhash mng motif mozilla mime mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg |
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> > > opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline |
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> > > samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl sse sse2 |
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> > > svg tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb |
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> > > udev userland_GNU vorbis x86 xml xml2 xmms xsl xv zlib" |
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> > Do you really need all these USE flags and features? I think not.. Add |
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> > USE flags that really are useful not add them just because they might |
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> > become useful sometime.. The more features you have in your packages, |
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> > the slower and more memory hungry they are.. Take a look at my USE |
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> > flags.. |
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> you think - but you don't know what he wants and needs. |
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I didn't change many from the defaults because I didn't know what most of them |
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were. If it ain't broke don't fix it. |
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> btw, I would emerge ufed and work down the list.... |
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I'll emerge it now, and ask you what on earth it is now as well. |
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> > USE="-X -arts -apache2 -berkdb -cups -dri -eds -esd -gdbm -gnome |
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> > -gstreamer -gtk -gpm -xmms 3dnow acl bash-completion bzip2 fbcon hal lzo |
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> > mbox mmx nsplugin nvidia offensive sse svga tiff urandom" |
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> > -X because I don't every application to be built with X support, -arts |
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> > because of the same reason.. The applications that i think will need X |
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> > support I add a line like this to /etc/portage/package.use |
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> so you want to break douzends of packages for him? Why? -dri? Maybe he |
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> needs it? fbcon? Why? who needs it? You are telling him to deactivate |
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> usefull stuff and activate useless? Great! |
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Yeah, but I don't usually go through and add stuff to package.use. |
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> > Remember, always add the minimum USE flags you need to /etc/make.conf, |
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> > you should always tune your system to specific packages by adding USE |
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> > flags to be used for the specific package to /etc/portage/package.use |
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> oh, yeah, increase the work and risk subtle breakage here and there .... |
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I agree with minimal USE flags, but I just don't know which ones I can get |
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away with disabling. So I go cautiously. It's saved me much pain. |
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