On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:51:54AM -0600, Dustin C. Hatch wrote > The package defaults have gotten out of hand, in my opinion. I use > default/linux/amd64/10.0 on all my machines and my > /etc/portage/package.use directories have dozens of -flag entries for > packages with ridiculous defaults, and almost none that come from the > profile. I'm considering removing pkginternal from USE_ORDER.
Have you heard the old joke about how an elephant is actually a mouse designed by a committee? The same thing applies to distro bloat. Some people want feature A, others want feature B, and others want feature C. The final result is a distro with features A *AND* B *AND* C. I was originally drawn to Gentoo with the "Gentoo Ricer" atitude. But now it's the fine-grained control of USE flags that makes me stay with Gentoo. I think we may have to admit that "one size does not fit all". There are just too many individual scenarios. A truly minimal build should be sufficient to boot to a text console, and have networking and portage to be able to build further up the chain. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
