On 03/08/2019 18:32, Walter Dnes wrote:
So far so good. The basic system is installed and booting. One
question... can I just set the "bindist" USE flag globally.
Usually you unset it globally. If you allow some of the packages to be
built with it, you're going to lose some functionality due to
redistribution legal nonsense. On a personal system where you install
packages without the intent to redistribute them to others, you want
that flag disabled globally.
For example in freetype you lose ClearType support. In Firefox it will
replace the logo and possibly the name with something else. Openssh will
disable patented algorithms.
Some packages will not fine-tune their performance to your CPU and
instead do generic optimizations.
TL;DR: you don't want to enable bindist. Better disable it globally.
