Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:41 -0600, Dale wrote:
Should I be turning some of those off as they are not needed? This
is
my oldest install so I bet some are not even needed or can be done
away
with. I most likely had a good reason for turning them on way back
when
but may not have a good reason now.
Dale
I think you go down the wrong path when you ask someone else what USE
flags *you* need. We don't know you and your requirements/preferences
enough to know what is needed for you. It's like going up to a random
person and asking them if you should have your kitchen repainted and if
so what color. That rarely happens but for kitchens but confusingly
enough it's frequent for USE flags.
Also, "emerge --info |grep USE" isn't very USEful (IMO) because it only
shows what USE flags you have turned on, not the ones you have turned
off.
I was thinking that someone may see some USE flags that are no longer
needed in most cases. Some may not even be still in use as far as
portage is concerned. In other words, portage doesn't even recognize
them as a option. Basically, I do some picture stuff, surf with
Seamonkey, Firefox and sometimes Konqueror, sometimes get on chat with
Kopete, play Solitaire, watch a video on youtube sometimes. Oh, I print
stuff with my HP printer and download pics from my Canon camera.
I never noticed that emerge --info doesn't show the USE flags I
removed. That is sort of weird. I was thinking that it showed the USE
flags with not only the profile but what I have set in make.conf which
would include the ones turned on and turned off. Neat info.
Dale
:-) :-)
