
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.
Generally the USE flags are on unless you add them to your USE line with a - infront. Like -kde, or something. But if you need to emerge something that requires some kde libs it will emerge the libs.
And don't confuse USE flags with compiler optimizations for gcc. They are two different things.