On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:31, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks: > > A few months back, I went through a phase where I built several > computers via the gentoo installer disk, they work, but they are not as > well optimized as I would like. I have successfully destroyed 5 of them > trying to fix the use flags, so after that im to the point of asking for > some help :) --
Too much optimisation can be a bad thing. > > My IDS box is the next one on the list to be fixed. I would like to be > able to rebuild the kernel for what I use it for - -No problem there -- > that's simple. And I would like to take out all the unused use flags > and replace them with a basic set - -this is where I have gotten into > trouble before on the other systems -- I can edit them in make.conf so I > have what I want - right now it looks like I will be using > > USE="apache2 dev/lang-php mysql -ipv6 -mmx -mp3 -nls -xmms -alsa -arts" What is dev/lang-php doing in there? If your intention is for the mysql USE flag to only apply to dev/lang-php then put the line 'dev-lang/php mysql' into /etc/portage/package.use Also mmx is not a default USE flag, specifically disabling it is redundant. > > Knowing that, once I edit make.conf, what do I need to do next to get > stuff re-compiled etc? if you had looked at the emerge man page you'd have noticed the 'N' argument. > > Any other recommendation etc??? My recommendation is to not touch any USE flags that you don't understand. The defaults are usually perfectly fine unless you have a good reason to disable particular flags. I would also recommend that you go through and read all the portage documentation. > > Thanks > > TIM > > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
