On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:17:26 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Oh, and keep in mind that flags really only have an effect if the > corresponding packages are actually installed. For example, the cups > flag doesn't really have an effect unless you install apps that do > printing, so it seems pretty safe to leave in a minimal profile (would > you really want to install libreoffice, chromium, or foomatic and not > have cups support?). Really? Yes, I can see plenty of cases where I’d want LO or Chromium but with USE=-cups, because there’s no printer anywhere in sight. Why should that mean I don’t want an office suite or a web browser? Probably not so much foomatic (though maybe there are other printing frameworks than CUPS that people might use?), but LO and Chromium absolutely. Chris