On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500 >> > Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > You often mention the attraction of Gentoo is you get only what you > want. But, consider this; if you put flags routinely in make.conf you > lose most of that benefit. You end up with the equivalent of Mandrake > where you complied it yourself, not the binary distro. > > USE="<every possible flag enabled>" emerge something and > yum install something and pretty much equivalent in terms of end > result.
I'm actually very much in Dale's usage pattern here. If there's a feature I want, and it's a globally-valid USE flag (such as, say, ipv6), I put it in make.conf. If there's a feature I want, and it's package-specific, it goes in package.use. If there's a feature I want, it's a globally-valid USE flag, but I *don't* want it in a particular package (say, X in vim), the enabler goes in make.conf, the disabler goes in packages.use; for 90% of packages, I want that support. So that's not USE=<every possible flag enable>, that's USE=<all the global flags I want enabled>. -- :wq
