On 8/11/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello people, i installed a Gentoo 2006.0 with a LiveCD and i noticed make.conf is full of USE flags (a lot of em really) which every now and then cause emerges to merge a lot of packages that i dont need, so i wanted to ask if there is an advisable minimum set of flags that i could use.
I would recommend putting very few flags in make.conf, and making heavy use of /etc/portage/package.use. In many cases, we add a flag to make.conf because we want functionality for a single package, and it ends up affecting other packages as well. Those flags that do go in make.conf should truly have some global sense. A good plan for trimming: for each flag in make.conf, do "USE=-flag emerge -DNvp world". If only one or two installed packages use that flag, move it it package.use. You also get a chance to possibly rebuild some things without those flags to eliminate some dependancies. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
