[gentoo-user] USE flags...
Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I would prefer to install less upfront and add on later as needed. Doing an `emerge -pv $packagename` then looking through the dependencies and their USE flags each time, to me, doesn't seem like the best method. I took a look at the list of USE flags at http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE and disabling dozens of them in /etc/make.conf doesn't seem like a great method either. I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any suggestions? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I would prefer to install less upfront and add on later as needed. Doing an `emerge -pv $packagename` then looking through the dependencies and their USE flags each time, to me, doesn't seem like the best method. I took a look at the list of USE flags at http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE and disabling dozens of them in /etc/make.conf doesn't seem like a great method either. I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any suggestions? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. Hi, Recently there was such discussion, only about the default USE-flags (in current profile). By memory the solution was: -* only desired USE-flags here, ex. alsa crypt readline ... in '/etc/make.conf' -* disables quite all (only all optional w/o the required ones) and turns ON the USE-flags following it. PS: watch out there are 2-3 flags which are absolutely required for a sane system, check ML-archive (readline is one). HTH. Rumen Hello, This looks like what I am leaning towards. Now I just have to find out what those few critical flags are ;o} Thanks all! -- Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I would prefer to install less upfront and add on later as needed. Doing an `emerge -pv $packagename` then looking through the dependencies and their USE flags each time, to me, doesn't seem like the best method. I took a look at the list of USE flags at http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE and disabling dozens of them in /etc/make.conf doesn't seem like a great method either. I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any suggestions? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. Hi, Recently there was such discussion, only about the default USE-flags (in current profile). By memory the solution was: -* only desired USE-flags here, ex. alsa crypt readline ... in '/etc/make.conf' -* disables quite all (only all optional w/o the required ones) and turns ON the USE-flags following it. PS: watch out there are 2-3 flags which are absolutely required for a sane system, check ML-archive (readline is one). HTH. Rumen Hello, This looks like what I am leaning towards. Now I just have to find out what those few critical flags are ;o} Thanks all! -- Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hello, I found this below at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11993814: USE=-* tcpd crypt ssl pam ncurses zlib readline. Does it look as minimalistic *and* safe as possible? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...
Hello, Is it possible to copy/backup the /sys directory while the system is live with all filesystems mounted? I have tried a few methods ie: cp, cpio, and rsync, all as root. I am getting various Permission denied and Invalid argument errors. Does anybody have any clear answers jump out at them without me going into greater detail? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative
Hello, This is great stuff. Does anybody have any suggestions as to applications for monitoring web traffic(browsing) etc? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. - Original Message - From: Mark Shields To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bandwidthd alternative ntop, iptraf. Both good programs. ntop is curses-based, iptraf is web-based. There was a thread a few weeks ago. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg04463.html where I originally saw these programs mentioned. On 5/31/05, Miguel Miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, im looking for a bandwidth monitor aplication, im using mrtg, but it only shows total values, i need a more granular option, that show me on a per ip basis, what ports, total bandwidth by ip, etc, i found banwidthd (http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/) Do you know any other alternative? --- Miguel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
