From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E335138359 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00746E0891; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1D8BE0887 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-157-96-171.range86-157.btcentralplus.com ([86.157.96.171] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kR0gM-0000IU-7g for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:16:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: antlists Message-ID: <2ad43d9f-eba7-cd61-13e5-fd3e04d3e5f3@youngman.org.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 23:16:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 74765351-0d80-4b35-885b-c22a8e4499f6 X-Archives-Hash: 1972abf0a0575463c0303ee377f295f5 On 09/10/2020 20:19, Jude DaShiell wrote: > available profiles > eselect profile list > returns three profiles I might use all in the 17.0 version number. > stable, desktop, and desktop-gnome. I suspect stable would return a > console environment, desktop-gnome would get a gnome desktop, but how is > desktop different from desktop-gnome? > Maybe even better could eselect give this information if given the correct > parameters? > Well, Gnome is not the only desktop ... I'm not sure what profiles are there, but I'd use desktop-kde-systemd, and add -gnome -gtk to my USE list. I can't stand gnome. Cheers, Wol