On Wednesday 18 November 2009 07:49:40 Dale wrote: > 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.
eix comes with some useful utilities like eix-test-obsolete which scans all your portage files and tells you which settings are redundant, duplicated and so on. It takes a while to parse all of it, but a useful exercise nonetheless -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
