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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Greg, Now I understand what you were stating, and as a Gentoo n00b, I can honestly say that I have no idea what the possible outcomes of these situations are, except to say that from what I understand of Portage, even if you have -kde -qt -gtk -gnome in your use flags, if you try to emerge a package that has a dependency on a lib that is installed with one of these, it will get compiled and installed.
For your first question about KDE CD player, no you will not be able to use it because it is installed as part of the kdemultimedia package (I believe) which in turn is dependent on a bunch of kdelibs and qt (and possibly kdebase, I'm not sure). As for the programs that depend on gnome libraries, this is the beauty of Portage, it will check dependencies for you and install all the necessary libs.
As for losing the optimization if you have to emerge kde and gnome, the only consequence is hard drive space and some download/compile time.
As for pdf files, I think the PDF USE flag just installs the pdflib library, so if you install a program to read PDFs, it should get compiled and installed as well (again, this is what I understand of how Portage works, but I am by no means a Gentoo expert).
As for a USE flags walkthrough, I also would like to see this (being still a n00b) and the ramifications of the various USE flags being turned on and off, but AFAIK there is nothing on the Gentoo site and nothing I have seen anywhere else, but perhaps if we make the suggestion in the Gentoo forums, a developer may have the time and desire to churn out a quickie.