[gentoo-user] Need help with USE options.

[Dale]

Hi again,

I read a thread that was talking about the global USE pulling some 
things a user may not want installed.  I am going to do a reinstall and 
mostly copy some things over from my current install but I do want to 
change my USE line.  I am a bit worried about using the option they 
posted, the "-*" at the beginning of the USE line.  I may disable 
something that I need then.

I use KDE for my desktop.  I plan to have OOc installed along with java 
and that sort of thing.  I don't have any database software installed, 
that I know of anyway.   I want to make this a reasonable install this 
time.  I have a lot of gnome stuff installed right now and I don't use 
gnome at all.  I tried it, it's not for me.  No offense to Gnome users.

This is my current USE line:

> USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artsd artswrappersuid -bonobo cdr chroot
> clanJavaScript -crypt dbus doc -eds ethereal f-prot fdftk gaim gcj
> gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk -gtkhtml hal hbci hpijs gif
> innodb java javascript jbig justify kde mmx mozdomi mozilla nsplugin
> ofx offensive openoffice -oss parse-clocks ppds pysol scanner scribus
> sse tcltk tiff tkinter truetype tuxracer udev usb X xml xprint yahoo
> 3dnow "


As far as I know, they are in alphabetical order as well.  I'm a 
recovering perfectionist OK.  LOL  I'm not recovering to well either.  
Is there anything that I should add to make it remove gnome or other 
software that I may not be using anyway?  That includes things I may 
need to have the "-" in front of to override the global settings.

While I am at it, have a look at these lines as well.  I like fast but 
stable:

> LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now'


> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe"


I have a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU with 1GB of ram.  Let me know if you 
see something wrong with those.  So far they are stable at least.

I plan to work on my servers next. 

Thanks for the help.

Dale
:-)





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