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On Saturday 14 May 2011 20:06:18 Indi wrote: |
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> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:00:02PM +0200, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote: |
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> > > Sounds like the old "6 of one, a half-dozen of the other" to me... |
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> > > What makes the subtractive method better? |
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> > This is how I interpret Alan's message: |
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> > For certain flags when you enable it for a package you will have to |
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> > also enable it for its dependencies. So you'll have to chase down the |
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> > dependency tree if you enable a flag for a user package and several of |
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> > the libraries it uses need the flag too, which may end up requiring |
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> > doing several emerge --pretend cycles to sort out. |
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> > Whereas if you subtract functionality, you usually won't have to |
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> > change the libraries. (The corollary being that if you are going to |
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> > remove functionality from the libraries, you should do so by globally |
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> > removing the use flag, rather than on the package level.) |
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> Well perhaps it's nitpicking, but I like my systems as lean as possible. |
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> I almost never emerge anything without -av options, just so I can say |
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> "no" and edit package.use if need be. It rarely causes more than a few |
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> extra seconds to be consumed, since my needs don't change terribly often. |
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> Depends on how one uses the system, I suppose... |
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Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last KDE |
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upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes (scanner, |
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rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages and libraries. |
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Other flag changes may well have added packages that I didn't need, but didn't |
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have the time to go through the lot at the time. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |