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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Well, I'm not very experienced when it comes to USE flags, but I know that many ebuilds won't care what your USE flags are. Just take a good look at what USE flags the bigger builds (like xfree, kde and such) take note to. Sometimes you can gain a bit by switching off some flags.
Also remember to try different switches when emerging something that you're sure won't need all the stuff the --pretend lists. Sometimes you can get rid of optional stuff.
But all in all, it's probably better just setting the USE flags you know you're going to need.
Can't tell you if this means switching them all off, or if you can do something else, as I'm not really that much into the rules on that point.