Oh, it gets a lot better than that. Every package on my system is stripped down, or modified in some way at build time.
It’s a lot like Arch, where nearly all software choices are left to the user, but you can also choose to enable/disable certain USE flags.
These are all of the USE flags you can enable or disable on a per package or system-wide basis.
Edit: Take ‘cups’ for example. I don’t use a printer, so by disabling the ‘cups’ USE flag, any software that previously had code for printing no longer has this code in the resulting binary. The software runs a little faster, has a little less bloat, and could potentially be more secure.
It’s not such a huge leap since you already know which packages to install from having to install them on Arch.
Oh, it gets a lot better than that. Every package on my system is stripped down, or modified in some way at build time.
It’s a lot like Arch, where nearly all software choices are left to the user, but you can also choose to enable/disable certain USE flags.
These are all of the USE flags you can enable or disable on a per package or system-wide basis.
Edit: Take ‘cups’ for example. I don’t use a printer, so by disabling the ‘cups’ USE flag, any software that previously had code for printing no longer has this code in the resulting binary. The software runs a little faster, has a little less bloat, and could potentially be more secure.
It’s not such a huge leap since you already know which packages to install from having to install them on Arch.