new gentoo install - USE variables

[Brian Kelsay]

I got to teh end of the ufed emerge and it gave an error that the md5 sums
don't match.  i tried again and get the same result.  So, I commented out
the new gentoo mirror line and removed the ufed.tbz2 pakage and then emerge
ufed again and now it works.  The thing is, ufed doesn't give me any more
info than the web page at gentoo did.  Ah well, moving right along.

> 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.
>