Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500
> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500
>> > Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
> You often mention the attraction of Gentoo is you get only what you
> want. But, consider this; if you put flags routinely in make.conf you
> lose most of that benefit. You end up with the equivalent of Mandrake
> where you complied it yourself, not the binary distro.
>
> USE="<every possible flag enabled>" emerge something and
> yum install something and pretty much equivalent in terms of end
> result.

I'm actually very much in Dale's usage pattern here. If there's a
feature I want, and it's a globally-valid USE flag (such as, say,
ipv6), I put it in make.conf. If there's a feature I want, and it's
package-specific, it goes in package.use. If there's a feature I want,
it's a globally-valid USE flag, but I *don't* want it in a particular
package (say, X in vim), the enabler goes in make.conf, the disabler
goes in packages.use; for 90% of packages, I want that support.

So that's not USE=<every possible flag enable>, that's USE=<all the
global flags I want enabled>.

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