-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/27/2014 12:26 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:41:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote: >> Starting with USE="-*" on a server (which is a sane thing to do) >> has become a lot more difficult as well. > > No, starting with USE="-*" is very dangerous. It is not recommended > nor supported, in any setup, by the dev community. If you do it, > you are solely responsible for your system and you get to keep the > broken pieces when things do not work. A safer approach would be to > turn off the specific use flags you do not want to support. > > William >
That's nonsense imo and I use that setup on multiple servers/routers without any issues. It makes sense because you have the most minimal setup possible, the most minimal codepaths possible which reduces exposure to bugs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS5kalAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWz/DcIAIZtMLZ907iMbqQs71Q2KGoY kKhUavNCg/PxsxnASyRVahf9LBAoJ2ZOya5/V8fcyf5RZEh5M9Jhc05qmEh5FIPU t7jTyRN1P0rCt3WLv/KMrIkszh/0iPWygu7BGio9KsdqxeUtsSdrQ4ylmjiJKyCJ mszFnLmG57ovL/Uv4YB/QWyhRBbxf9Be1Vvv1XLHEKouJNzWeuVBoQtECozYpfp+ tLt5HVm9skvk2pnjlAuiIODT3bVlY0sgXlzBaz0EVHTrnId/EUqsn0U8JpVqOw05 HXRNt2GZtJBJuU6J/q9whvLt/oHl7yZsbilS9LbuWydO5ooAywO27qtuR24OVXc= =L7hT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
