new gentoo install - USE variables

[Shawn C. Powell]

Hi Brian,

>From what I've read of the docs, the only flags you need for Gnome are
"gnome" and "gtk", and for KDE "kde" and "qt". The docs say disabling a
use flag only disables *optional* support.  If a package absolutely
requires something it will get emerged anyway.

Take a look at these:
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml

I've been switching all my machines over to Gentoo the last couple of
weeks and so far I'm ecstatic about it. :)

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:48, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> I'm part way into my new gentoo install and I'm not sure of what I'm doing.
> I am inside the new Gentoo on the PC and I am in nano ready to set compile
> variables.   This is Gentoo 1.4 rc2 on a Pent. II 333 with a LX chipset
> board (pre BX), 256MB Ram, 20GB HDD, ATI Rage Pro 2x AGP 8MB, 3Com 905 Nic
> and a Creative ES137x sound card.   As you can see it's nothing fancy, but a
> spare box.   I want to try out some different window managers on this so I
> have included the gnome and kde specific flags and stuff for multimedia, but
> do I really need all this stuff in there?   If no, what do I really need?
> 
> Here is the USE line I have so far:
> 
> USE="X gtk gnome -alsa acpi apm arts bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode fbcon
> gb gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gtkhtml imap imlib java jikes jpeg kde ldap libgda
> libwww mbox mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses oav odbc oggvorbis opengl
> pam pda perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang
> slp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usbxface xml xml2 xmms xv zlib
> x86"
> 
> The real question is: Do I need to put every flag in there for each function
> I might want to use later?
> Brian
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