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 are for setting optional settings only. For instance, xmms can be compiled with Gnome support, but it isn't required. Therefore, if you have '-gnome' in your USE statement, xmms won't be compiled with Gnome support. However, a package that requires Gnome to compile and function will build the required pieces of Gnome regardless of what's in your USE statement. So if you built the KDE cd player, it will build the necessary bits of KDE.
Here is a link to the current version of /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc in CVS. This lists all official USE vars with a description. It is important to note that ebuilds can use their own USE vars that are not listed here. I've not seen one do that yet though.
http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.d...
Damon