On Jan 17, 2013 3:35 AM, "Dirkjan Ochtman" <d...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with > > USE="-*" and add on stuff as necessary when portage complains and/or > > ebuilds break. That's what I'd recommend to someone wanting to set up a > > "basic server" machine. > > Yeah, but that sucks with USE_EXPAND. For example, I sure want some > version of Python installed, but setting USE="-*" removes all support > for Python versions and has me add them one by one. I guess I could do > that, but now I always have to keep up to date myself, which sucks. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan >
My thought is that base should have just enough enabled for stage3 to be self-hosting. Moving existing base to something like "common" would retain a profile for that "most people would want this" set.
