On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:29:47AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote > If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most > thankful
Here's mine. Note that some flags (mmx, sse, and sse2) are cpu-specific. My machine is a general-purpose desktop. USE="-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib" In addition, here's my /etc/portage/package.use # If you don't specify "motif" here or in USE, the xpdf ebuild only # installs the libraries, but not the /usr/bin/xpdf executable!!! app-text/xpdf motif media-gfx/gimp doc media-gfx/imagemagick doc media-libs/win32codecs real media-video/mplayer custom-cflags i8x0 real 3dnowext mmxext net-misc/wget ssl net-nntp/slrn uudeview sys-libs/glibc userlocales www-client/w3m -X -imlib x11-base/xorg-x11 bitmap-fonts font-server truetype-fonts type1-fonts # If it's going to be a rescue package, it better work standalone # when libraries get broken. sys-apps/busybox static -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list