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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Use flags determine what kind of support will be compiled for a program.
Say you have a program that has a gnome, kde, and commandline interface. If you have -gnome in your use flags, the gnome frontend will not be compiled or installed. The commandline interface will always be there. Get it?
If you want to see what flags a package is using try the -vp flags with emerge. (very useful)
Generally having less USE Flags will safe you harddrive space, compile time and bloat (You determine what is bloat by setting the use flags). So you lose some functionallity, but this is good if you don't want that functionallity. ie, if you don't have a 3dfx card the -tdfx is advisable.
If a flag is not specified it is off! So you may want to check the /etc/make.profile/make.defaults to check which flags you don't want and need to add a -flag for.