Vincent A. Primavera wrote: > Hello, > Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach > to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags > enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you > would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I > would prefer to install less upfront and add on later as needed. > Doing an `emerge -pv $packagename` then looking through the > dependencies and their USE flags each time, to me, doesn't seem like > the best method. I took a look at the list of USE flags at > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE and disabling dozens of them in > /etc/make.conf doesn't seem like a great method either. I'm trying to > avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any > suggestions? > -- > Thank you, > > Vincent A. Primavera. > Director of Information Technology. > Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co.
Hi, Recently there was such discussion, only about the default USE-flags (in current profile). By memory the solution was: "-* only desired USE-flags here, ex. alsa crypt readline ..." in '/etc/make.conf' "-*" disables quite all (only all optional w/o the required ones) and turns ON the USE-flags following it. PS: watch out there are 2-3 flags which are absolutely required for a sane system, check ML-archive (readline is one). HTH. Rumen
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