On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:08:40PM +0000, James wrote > »Q« <boxcars <at> gmx.net> writes: > > > > tl;dr: Getting rid of USE="-*" was a lot easier than I'd expected. A > > little rebuilding, a lot of (easy) USE flag pruning, and I'm done. > > > Until yesterday, I've had USE="-*" for years. > > I've only used (USE="-*") for small systems like firewalls, devices, > or other minimized servers. If you think about it, most of us, > on a workstation, what everything that will work. The exception being > somebody with meager resources or other minimizations that warrant constraint.
I used to use USE='-* blah blah blah", where "blah blah blah" was a lot of flags. My rule of thumb was to compare... * how many "foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use if I didn't include "foobar" in make.conf, versus... * how many "-foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use if I did include "foobar" in make.conf Which ever way resulted in fewer entries in package.use was the way I'd go. I effectively built my own custom profile. I've now switched to the conventional style, without "-*", but I now have a lot of "-foobar" flags in USE, like so... USE="10bit 12bit X apng bindist ffmpeg gles2 jpeg netifrc png snappy szip truetype x264 x265 xorg -acl -berkdb -caps -chatzilla -cracklib -crypt -filecaps -gallium -gdbm -gmp-autoupdate -graphite -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -manpager -nls -openmp -pam -pch -roaming -sendmail -spell -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -upower -uuid -xinerama" -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
