Grant wrote:
> Can someone explain the great minimal breakout happening in portage or
> point me toward a link? Is USE="minimal" in make.conf the kind of
> thing you should do if you don't have a specific reason not to, or the
> kind of thing you shouldn't do unless you have a specific reason to.
>
> - Grant
The second one, but I can't come up with any possible reason for doing
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.
So don't gamble with it. :)
Ok, good to know. Can anyone report any packages they prefer to run
with USE="minimal" ?
- Grant
app-editors/vim: I already know how to use vim, so I don't need
vimtutor, and I can live without help files installed locally
net-misc/dhcp: I get my DHCP server from a different package, so no
point building dhcpd
sys-libs/ncurses: don't want a zillion obscure terminal types installed
in terminfo that I've never heard of
I wouldn't put minimal in make.conf - it's too easy to trip over.
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