new gentoo install - USE variables

[Jason Clinton]

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"
>

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop the compiler! Before you go any further, 'emerge 
ufed' and then type 'ufed' at the command prompt. ufed is a ncurses- 
based use flag editor that automatically puts appropriate changes in 
make.conf. There are a ton of the options you've selected already set by 
default in make.defaults. By putting them in make.conf, you've gone 
overkill. ufed handles all that for you.

Before you can emerge anything though, you do need to set your arch as 
indicated. Also, set something besides ibiblio as your default mirror. 
(Ibiblio is getting hammered.)

Otherwise, congrats on trying Gentoo. You're going to love it. Be sure 
to do an 'emerge -up --deep world' before you start installing new 
components. This makes sure you're nice and shiny up-to-date on 
absolutely everything installed by default. (Yea, i know, this should 
all be in the install docs...)

-- 
Jason Clinton
I don't believe in witty sigs.