Dale wrote:
> I'm not a dev but I can see both sides.  I learned why some things are
> being pulled in that I couldn't figure out.  I use KDE but do not want
> Gnome and it appears that I have some gnome stuff installed and didn't
> know it, because of the USE line.  I guess they are in there because of
> people that are still noobies and don't know any better, like me maybe.
> 
> Maybe there needs to be more info about what is in the defaults so
> people will know.  I see now that I need to put -gnome in mine.  I have
> a lot of gnome stuff installed and had no clue I needed -gnome until I
> read this.

Why don't you read the documentation [1] then?

[1]
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2#doc_chap2

WKR,
-jkt

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