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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:16, Jarry wrote: |
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> Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: |
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> >> Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage |
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> > so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning, |
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> > which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one |
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> > application and turn off one of the most useful in another. |
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> Sometimes it is not correctly implemented (or its description |
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> is not exact). For example, if you emerge mysql with minimal-flag, |
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> you will get just mysql-client, not server. |
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> But mysql is described as "A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL |
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> database server" in gentoo package database. And server functionality |
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> can not be imho considered as "some unnecessary feature" for any |
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> server-software (without that it is not server anymore, is it?)... |
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> I do have "minimal" in my global USE flags, but it happened |
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> to me a few times that I had problems because of it and I had |
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> to put "-minimal" for some packages (in packages.use)... |
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minimal is not ment to be used as a global flag. |
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It should only be used in specific cases. |
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minimal minimizes size or functionality and often both. |
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Don't use it unless you *know* what it does and this is the desired behaviour. |
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leaving minimal off will never hurt your system, turning it on globally will. |
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