On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:48:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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.
Yes, of course. My point is that you can forget about maintaining all those USE flags yourself. > 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 know, and I used to take the time to find all the things I did want and just install those. I used kde-meta this once just from laziness. Now I get to keep the whole hog-roast. > I can't think of the kind of user that truly does actually need all of > that. Me neither. So maybe the time's approaching when I go and slim the whole shebang down. It'll have to wait until I've finished the current round of redesign of my website though. 177 pages to modify - that should keep me off the street corners for a while. -- Rgds Peter
