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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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.
I will give you a little thing about use flags.
If you don't know what to do, leave it as is. The defaults are fine for most people. Now, you can customize if you want, but you don't HAVE to.
If you have -gnome as a use flag, then if something has optional gnome support that can be compiled in, it won't. This doesn't mean you can't use gnome, but you'll get no special gnome treatment from anything you compile. Same for all other use flags. And, if it doesn't work, change the use flag and compile it again... it really isn't hard.