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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:44:47
Message-Id: 52E646A5.3060203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably by William Hubbs
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4 On 01/27/2014 12:26 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:41:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote:
6 >> Starting with USE="-*" on a server (which is a sane thing to do)
7 >> has become a lot more difficult as well.
8 >
9 > No, starting with USE="-*" is very dangerous. It is not recommended
10 > nor supported, in any setup, by the dev community. If you do it,
11 > you are solely responsible for your system and you get to keep the
12 > broken pieces when things do not work. A safer approach would be to
13 > turn off the specific use flags you do not want to support.
14 >
15 > William
16 >
17
18 That's nonsense imo and I use that setup on multiple servers/routers
19 without any issues.
20
21 It makes sense because you have the most minimal setup possible, the
22 most minimal codepaths possible which reduces exposure to bugs.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>