Hello, I used 2006.1 livecd to install a pII machine. It's going to becomme a (minimalistic) apache2 server. I just let the installation set the flags for the install so I have these flags currently:
CURRENT USE=" X alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv zlib apache2 " Some of these flag look questionable, such as the one with underscores (kernel_linux userland_GNU) as I only found information on them, where they are describe as 'undocumented use flags'. What's up with these flags? Where do I look to discern the minimal list of (necessary) system flags that must be kept? (I want to avoid negating any flags that are critical). These are my proposed list of flags: PROPOSED USE=" berkdb bitmap-fonts dbus hal jpeg ldap mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis win32codecs xml xv zlib apache2 " So can I just use this list, or do I have to incluce a -{flag} for each one? IS there simmpler syntax to globally remove unwanted flags [-*], but, not any critical system flags? (Is this the same as just leaving the flag out of the USE param. setting in make.conf? Are there default system flag settings that I can safely remove? Where is the list and how do I know which ones can be removed or negated? My (limited) understanding of flags are that the highest priority are those set in /etc/portage/package.use, then /etc/make.conf then the system default flags which may be located in several locations. Is there any docs or listing of all of these location and details on precedence? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list