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Vincent A. Primavera wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach |
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> to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags |
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> enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you |
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> would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I |
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> would prefer to install less upfront and add on later as needed. |
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> Doing an `emerge -pv $packagename` then looking through the |
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> dependencies and their USE flags each time, to me, doesn't seem like |
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> the best method. I took a look at the list of USE flags at |
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> http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE and disabling dozens of them in |
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> /etc/make.conf doesn't seem like a great method either. I'm trying to |
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> avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any |
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> suggestions? |
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> -- |
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> Thank you, |
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> |
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> Vincent A. Primavera. |
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> Director of Information Technology. |
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> Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. |
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Hi, |
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Recently there was such discussion, only about the default USE-flags (in |
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current profile). |
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By memory the solution was: "-* only desired USE-flags here, ex. alsa |
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crypt readline ..." in '/etc/make.conf' |
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"-*" disables quite all (only all optional w/o the required ones) and |
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turns ON the USE-flags following it. |
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PS: watch out there are 2-3 flags which are absolutely required for a |
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sane system, check ML-archive (readline is one). |
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HTH. Rumen |
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