David Haller <gentoo <at> dhaller.de> writes:
> >> >You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off > >> then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who > >> prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than using it. Huh? There is an entire universe of embedded devices out there. Vendors refer to this as the 'internet of things', for commercialization and mindshare purposes. It is actually just embedded devices, with tcp/ip/udp....... So there are trillions of reasons for gentoo folks to pursue minimization all the way down to a stripped (optimized) linux kernel to the point of running embedded linux. Just take a look at Linaro. > >> Hey, I got no printer, had others print about 5 pages for me in ~10 > >> years. Why would I want cups? > >You do know that only the desktop profiles include cups as a default USE > >flag? The one I recommended does not. > Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without > pulling in cups, no matter the use-flags. And "sabotaging" the ebuild > and buildsystem to not use cups leads to failed builds, BT,TriedThat :(( One of the (I guess not so obvious) purposes of my recent thread on profiles is for the community to discuss profiles that are less than the default profile for a given arch. We should be able to readily move up (from an embedded) and down (from a default profile), on each and every arch, with just the minimal flags, configs and such. Default is not even close to minimal. I'm just surprised (mildly disappointed :: but not really) that one of our embedded devs has not already championed this issue. David is just pointing out yet another reason for a different minimization need, but still in-line with what I outlined. I just think that the gentoo community should not have to go it individually alone when such minimizations are desired. Beside just as gentoo teaches one the basics of linux, so do does one learn about hardware issues, when you run an embedded system on a given platform. However, I do understand that *everyone with any sort of embedded expertise* is now mostly focused on the possibilities with the new arm64 SoCs about to appear on the market. hth, James
