Hello, On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:49:06PM +0000, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been pruning down a server to become a minimal firewall. Slowly > removing packages, running 'revdep-rebuild -p' removing packages > and so on. Now I've got my make.conf looking like this: > > USE="perl -gtk -gnome -qt -kde acl acpi hardened kerberos krb4 ssl -alsa > -arts/ > -avi -cups -gif -gstreamer -gtk2 -jpeg -motif -mp3 -mpeg -ogg -oggvorbis / > -png -quicktime -spell -vorbis -X -xmms -xv dvd -cdr sse mmx -cups / > -jack -php -tiff lm_sensors -mozilla doc syslog " >
you can make it look like this USE="-* perl acl acpi hardened kerberos krb4 ssl dvd sse mmx lm_sensors" The first "-*" disabels all and then you are sure that only what you want's gets enabled. > Anything else I should add/subtract from the USE flags? > > When I run a emerge -uavDN world, it still wants to rebuild some X packages: > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 > try to run emerge with "-p --pretend" option, which should give you the reason, why xorg would be emerged > Somehow, I think I've missed a few things as I definately want X, kde and > gnome > removed from the server-to-firewall. > > thoughts and suggestions are most welcome. > greetz alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
