Too many USE flags!!

[Durandune]

I recently installed the AMD64 gentoo from the installation CD, everything is working fine(except for many programs being incompatable with my architecture, but im ok with it, i have Windows...ewww... on other comp) anyway, when i do "emerge --info" i have tons of use flags that where there by default i guess, didnt use genkernel, used instalation guide, everything went fine and works perfectly, i just dont like haveing so many use flags when i dont need them all, ive searched make.conf, and like 3 or 4 other files that are supposed to contain use flags, and none of them even have a line that starts with USE="blah", it seems like all my use flags are just appearing out of no where, if anyone knows where these mysterious use flags are coming from, please let me know, my emerging takes soooo long because of the excess of use flags,
thanks for listening

Hardware:
AMD X2
2gig Ram
400gigs space
dual 7900GTs
soundblaster XiFi

[Unne]

[Monkeh]

emerge ufed and go through the list (CAREFULLY, if it's a profile default, you almost certainly want it), setting -* and turning on what you want.

[Durandune]

yes ive already seen that precedence list, and ive searched through every file, and none of them have any use flags in them, thats y i dont understand where the flags are coming from, when i add use flags to any of those files, they are added to my list, but there are like 40 flags that arent listed anywhere, but are still in effect, any other places other than that list where i could find use flags???

[Durandune]

cmon, doesnt anyone know why im getting so many use flags?, or why i have them even though they are comeing out of thin air? ive checked everywhere use flags are entered, and there are no use flags, but when i look at active use flags theres 40 of them, plz help, its not life threatening, but emerging takes me forevvvvvvver,

thx,

[Maedhros]

There are many make.defaults files - since Portage uses cascading profiles, those in the directories leading to your profile are applicable too.
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[Durandune]

thx, ill search those directories when i get home and see if i can find anything, ill post more later tonight, (college right now)

[SirYes]

If you are worried about long list of USE flags after issuing

[GNUtoo]

there was a glep on this on having profiles
but it was abandoned mabe because of + and - problems

some possibilities:
*create manualy theses sgroups
*migrate a lot of use in package.use
*wait for genetic(a new portage frontend)

[Carlo]

[1clue]

If you are positive you know what you're doing, you can do this in your make.conf file:

[Archangel1]

[1clue]

I DID post a warning with that tip....

[speeddemon]

[Carlo]

[mathfeel]

USE flag is what I love about gentoo, but I think the USE flags needs some catagorizing. For example, it's hard to imagine that "aac" has the same importance as "ntpl": one is just whether your program is going to support certain audio codec, another is related to important package like glibc. There are wiki sites that lists and explain USE flag alphabetically, but perhaps there can be also sites that list them by what they affect (the whole system or just mplayer, for example).

Just my two cents.
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[Carlo]