On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> > Not to long ago, there was only a 150 or so > packages for system regardless of the USE flags.
I think that you are just mistaken about this point. I have pretty much always been able to make @system package count blow up by turning on lots of flags. As I say, my server has >350 packages in @system including X and gnome stuff because of flags. The KDE laptop I just did for my mom has around 190, no X, no gnome, etc. It's all in the flag choices. But why worry? In the old days I did worry because the machines were slower and I couldn't do an @world update very often. Today on a modern processor I can rebuild @world with 900 packages in a few hours. It's not as big a deal anymore (to me anyway) that @system seems a little bloated. It's not bloated when you build a new system. It's only after you start making flag choices that it happens. - Mark
