Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote:
Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage
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so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning, which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one application and turn off one of the most useful in another.
Sometimes it is not correctly implemented (or its description is not exact). For example, if you emerge mysql with minimal-flag, you will get just mysql-client, not server. But mysql is described as "A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server" in gentoo package database. And server functionality can not be imho considered as "some unnecessary feature" for any server-software (without that it is not server anymore, is it?)... I do have "minimal" in my global USE flags, but it happened to me a few times that I had problems because of it and I had to put "-minimal" for some packages (in packages.use)... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
