Re: USE flags ??

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

> Nothing like wasting hours to save usecs, that's for sure.

ive never used gentoo or any other compile from source distros, but my
understanding is that their main "selling point" is that one has greater
control over the dependencies of packages. the speed improvement is a
"side effect".

> 
> > But for some programs i need to set some additional flags (mysql, squid,
> > samba,...).

or one needs additional compile time features of packages. as the
original poster has said. again, no one is looking for additional
speed-ups of software.

-matt