On 12/02/2013 01:24, Grant Edwards wrote: >> What new stuff did you get? > As best I can remember: a handful of bluetooth stuff, openldap, > consolekit, policykit, thunar, wxwidgets, libnotify, fam, a bunch of > gst plugins, and another dozen or two things pulled in by those. > >> > Did you change your profile to 13.0 and now have a ton of USE flags set >> > on that were previously off? > It didn't occur to me until afterwards, but yes, the "new" USE flags > did correspond with the change to a 13.0 desktop profile. I'm now > wondering if my 10.0 profile was the non-desktop "generic" one. When > I saw all the "new" USE flags, my assumption was that the USE flags > had just been added -- but now I'm betting they were newly enabled by > the 13.0 profile. >
That is almost certainly the profile change to 13.0 You had a more minimal profile than a desktop one, and selected a new desktop profile. The system then worked as designed and helpfully offered you a whole bunch of new stuff. Desktop profiles are designed to provide most of what the average desktop user would want. You are a minimalist kind of guy, right? Basic wm, no frills, no semantic-desktop and other integration nonsense? I recommend you change the profile again to the desktop one's parent, probably default/linux/amd64/13.0 Then add in just the USE flags that you want. It's always easier to add what you want to a system rather than removing what you don't. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
