On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:30:04 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote: > > Maybe we have something different then. I don't have > > blas-reference on here anymore either. My point was, disabling > > fortran to remove it only lead to other stuff being required. > > I think there is more on here now than there was before. So, > > removing fortran to get rid of bloat didn't help any because it > > just required a different set of bloat. > > Maybe it's time to make a backup, then remove all USE flags from > make.conf and package.use, set your profile to > default/linux/<arch>/10.0/desktop/kde and rebuild. Alan and Neil's > idea of a set of the meta-packages you want sounds good to me too. > > Then you'll really have a clean system.
You will have whatever system the profile maintainer thinks the average user should have, bloated to whatever degree said maintainer thinks is a good idea. No USE flags set does not mean no options set, it means default. And default sets plenty flags ON > I may follow suit - I built this system with kde-meta for > simplicity, but of course it now has a lot of stuff I don't want, > including Fortran. I tried rebuilding with -fortran as I said a few > minutes ago, but portage wanted ifc instead. kde-meta gives you all the stuff that's useful on the average system, plus all of accessibility, kdebindings, kdeedu, games, the sdk, toys and maybe even webdev. I can't think of the kind of user that truly does actually need all of that. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
