I see that the USE flags list is very big today but I don't know if it's growing too fast. So, I may think that someday Gentoo will need some mechanism to facilitate USE flags configuration.
I suggest the creation of a "USE flags grouping mechanism" to help the decision making of configuring make.conf when doing initial setup or somewhere else. For example: If we want a web server with Apache, "PHP with all functions" and MySQL we could place one single flag like AMP (Apache+MySQL+PHP) on make.conf, or if we want a desktop machine with full support to imaging and media encoding we could place one single flag like "MULTIMEDIA" on make.conf and voilá. I have lots of friends that hates taking hours selecting "packages" during other distributions installations or configuring things like this (that takes very long time to see every option/flag) and I think idea this could bring a very quick Gentoo pre-install. What do you think? PS.: Sorry for my "english"... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
