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Mike Flint wrote:
> I am a little lost on how the make.conf file works.  I uncommented the 
> chost, cflags, and cxxflags for the i686 portoin of the file.  Can I put 
> more than one statement in the use strings?  I get errors when I 
> uncomment the strings. Basically, I want to set the make.conf up for a 
> pentium 3 laptop and run gnome for the desktop.  Any information would 
> be appreciated.

Your USE line will look like

USE="foo bar baz"

If you don't know exactly what you want, then just uncomment the one line 
that starts USE= and you will be good to go.

Chad