I noticed he was putting a USE and FEATURES variable on the command line instead of make.conf and
friends.

This is what a link from a previous post told me to do. The link was in the first reply and is:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2111407.html
 
 It sort of tipped me off that he is familiar with Linux but
new to Gentoo.

We'll get him going tho.   ;-)

Thank you
Bob


Dale

:-)  :-)