Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote Perhaps so, but is building a minimal system the default behaviour that the profiles are targeted to? Apparently not. This default system is expected to likely meet the following criteria: [...snip big list...] Some people want

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote /etc/portage/profile/ site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ So you want /etc/portage/use.mask. Thanks. That sounds like what I'm looking for. I've heard that USE=-* has broken some builds in the past but I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:47:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I won't be running with all USE flags wiped. In /etc/portage/use.mask I'll USE=-*, and add the ones I want/need in /etc/make.conf and/or /etc/portage/package.use. OK, so maybe I am a bit of a control freak. When I say USE=a b c,

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: In another year or two, there may be a significant population of PCs that will be able to run Longhorn. And then they'll have to change the name to Longtooth. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:35:19 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: It's part of the portage tree. You can override almost anything in the profile. Some things are overriden in /etc/portage (see man portage) but in this case you can simply add USE=-gnome to make.conf (Holly said it first ;-)). If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote Bit I think you're missing the point. These are DEFAULTS, if you really don't want any unnecessary GNOME packages installed, you should be specifically including -gnome in /etc/make.conf. The point which

[gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote On my x86 system, the +gnome flag is set in /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults. So yes, if you want -gnome, you do need to set it specifically in /etc/make.conf, and then do an emerge --newuse world to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-25 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote On my x86 system, the +gnome flag is set in /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults. So yes, if you want -gnome, you do need to set it specifically in /etc/make.conf, and then do an emerge --newuse