Linked by Dave Scott on Mon 17th Mar 2003 17:36 UTC
I recently read Dustin Wilson's Newbie Gentoo Review and as a 'n00b' who recently installed Gentoo, I found it to be a good article about Gentoo. It is a very good overview of the installation and configuration process. After reading all the comments about how most people thought or were looking for it to be a newbie walkthrough, I thought that as a 'n00b' who has recently installed Gentoo, I would try to write a little something about installing Gentoo for the newbie.
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I've already checked out the USE flags how-to, but as I said earlier, theres's no discussion regarding the possible outcomes of each selection.
Example, I want to use fluxbox as my WM. So I set gnome and kde as disabled. Will I not be able to use the KDE CD player? Will I not be able to use any programs that depend on the gnome libraries? If I have to enable KDE and Gnome to use these items in fluxbox, do I lose the optimization of not selecting everything and the kitchen sink?
The default file for gentoo does not have PDF file listed as enabled...can you not view pdf files now?
I guess what we need is the "Verbose walkthru of USE flags"
Greg