[gentoo-user] flags on a minimalist server

[James]

Hello,


I'm building a firewall on an old p3. It has Compact
flash to ide, limited to 4 Gb so size is paramount.

It's mostly ready. However upon a routine update, I get this
error:

 Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
 into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

dev-lang/python:2.6

  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1', 'merge') pulled in 
by    >=dev-lang/python-2.5 required by ('installed', '/',
'sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13', 'nomerge')
    dev-lang/python required by ('installed', '/', 'sys-apps/file-4.23', 'nomerge')
    <dev-lang/python-3.0 required by ('installed', '/',
'sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13', 'nomerge')
    (and 1 more)

  ('installed', '/', 'dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by
    dev-lang/python[xml] required by ('installed', '/',
'app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.5', 'nomerge')
    (and 4 more)

  Explanation:

    New USE for 'dev-lang/python:2.6' are incorrectly set. In order to
    solve this, adjust USE to satisfy 'dev-lang/python[xml]'.



OK fair enough, let's check python[xml] and see what's up...

 dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1  USE="berkdb ncurses readline ssl
-build -doc -examples -gdbm* -ipv6* -sqlite -threads* -tk -ucs2 -wininst -xml*"
10,907 kB



I'm ok rebuilding python with no xml support (???) but, I wonder 
about the -threads flag. Is this wise?

also:
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

USE="-* -nls mmx hardened  ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \
python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog"


Suggestions on rebuilding python without xml or threads flags are most welcome.


James