On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:58, 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" ?
xorg-server on a headless system. It allows you to install X dependent packages and run them remotely (over ssh) without having to install the complete X server. (you can also disable the "xorg" flag since you won't need any input/output drivers) mysql on a client system. This only installs the libraries that are needed for clients. For instance if you need your apache/php webserver to talk to mysql but have no need for a local mysqlserver. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
