Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:40:29
Message-Id: 20051016222824.52945fd5@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables by Jorge Almeida
1 On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:03:44 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida
2 <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote:
3 | On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss
5 | > support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're
6 | > installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not
7 |
8 | I probably won't, unless I'm a biologist, and a molecular one.
9
10 If you're not a molecular biologist you probably won't be installing
11 packages which have optional support for a molecular biology library...
12
13 | OTH, I'll probably want tetex, which is not in the default list.
14
15 *shrug* then add it. Enabling tetex by default wouldn't be a good idea,
16 it's one of the biggest downloads in the tree.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
20 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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