On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:16, Jarry wrote: > Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: > >> Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage > > ... > > > so. The actual problem is that the flag has no 'real' global meaning, > > which means that it might turn off some 'unnecessary' features in one > > application and turn off one of the most useful in another. > > Sometimes it is not correctly implemented (or its description > is not exact). For example, if you emerge mysql with minimal-flag, > you will get just mysql-client, not server. > > But mysql is described as "A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL > database server" in gentoo package database. And server functionality > can not be imho considered as "some unnecessary feature" for any > server-software (without that it is not server anymore, is it?)... > > I do have "minimal" in my global USE flags, but it happened > to me a few times that I had problems because of it and I had > to put "-minimal" for some packages (in packages.use)...
minimal is not ment to be used as a global flag. It should only be used in specific cases. minimal minimizes size or functionality and often both. Don't use it unless you *know* what it does and this is the desired behaviour. leaving minimal off will never hurt your system, turning it on globally will. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
