On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > On my x86 system, the +gnome flag is set in > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults. > > So yes, if you want -gnome, you do need to set it specifically in > /etc/make.conf, and then do an emerge --newuse world to get recompile > all of the packages that currently have gnome support included, without > such support.
A lot of people got bitten when ipv6 was added to make.defaults. I see that it's happening again with gnome. One of the reasons I use Gentoo is because I want control over what gets installed on my machine, rather than succumb to MS-style kitchen-sink-bloatware. I just had a look at /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults, and all I can say is AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I'm seriously considering zapping the USE variable in make.defaults. Then running "emerge --deep --newuse --world", followed by "emerge --deep --newuse --system", followed by "revdep-rebuild --ask". It'll be interesting to see how many hundreds of megs I'll regain on my harddrive and how much faster my system will run. Yes, I know make.defaults gets overwritten. What package owns it, or more importantly, overwrites it??? Neither qpkg nor equery seem to know. Even if I run a script that runs ed against make.defaults before calling emerge, the big multi-package emerges are a potential backdoor for make.defaults to get over-written part-way through, and the remaining packages will get built with all the crap I don't want/need. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
