On 04/08/2017 02:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 08/04/2017 20:16, Francesco Turco wrote: >> I'm trying to globally enable the "bindist" USE flag on my system > > Why on $DEITY's green earth would you even think of doing that? > > Dont. Just ... don't. I don;t know what you are trying to accomplish > doing that, but it can't end well. > > Set that flag in package.use for the packages where you want it to be set. >
I'm pretty sure when I installed gentoo on my new laptop back in January the bindist flag was set in make.conf (in the stage3 tarball.) I didn't notice until after I compiled everything that some things were weird and had to remove it and recompile a bunch of heavy packages. Dan
