From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1Dkr-0006eO-9T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:45:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j761hrYS011344; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 01:43:53 GMT Received: from fep7.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j761eJJo024540 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 01:40:20 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (d36-7-237.home1.cgocable.net [24.36.7.237]) by fep7.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016581B1F for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F4153B.9090106@interlynx.net> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:41:15 -0400 From: "C.Beamer" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Please confirm my understanding X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fbe1f8e1-1cc2-4a14-b377-e36780b0bc2b X-Archives-Hash: c92dbe408f8e0291913d1e9505a0337c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, First, I'm going to comment on some of the things that have been discussed in the "Gentoo Badges" thread. My opinion - Linux is not rocket science, there's just a bit of a learning curve to it. I know what I'm talking about because my computer background before starting to learn Linux was a few courses in Windows applications. I did take a DOS course in the early '90's and I guess that's where I learned to love the command line and that's one of the things I love about Linux. Linux sometimes frustrated me royally when I did my first install of Redhat back in the days of 6.0. However, I didn't start using Linux seriously until Redhat 9. Even then, dependencies were an effort. But I wanted to learn and luckily, I had a friend who was very patient at helping me over my initial hurdles (can't go to him for help with Gentoo though - he hasn't "seen the light"! :-) ) Having said that, if I didn't have a few years of Linux under my belt and also a basic Unix course, Gentoo would probably be too much for me. However, from where I sit now, I'm determined to learn Gentoo and am finding that I have learned a few things already. And I think a key is how much you want to learn something. So, now to the main point of this. After my 2nd Gentoo install, which progressed farther than the first because I corrected something I missed, I couldn't startx because my video card didn't seem to be recognized. I'm not sure that I undertstand why because I watched very closely when booting the Gentoo Live CD and it gave me the exact name of my video card. Anyway, a few people on this list suggested that I recompile the kernel. The only time I have every compiled a kernel is when I did it on installing Gentoo and by following the Handbook. Ergo, I wasn't sure exactly what I needed to do when recompiling it sort of "midstream". Hence, I decided to go back to square on and follow the installation steps from the beginning and see if I could correct what was wrong. You're probably thinking that I'm nuts, but this is a learning experience for me and besides I think it's fun. Now for the question. I need confirmation of my understanding. In the make.conf file when setting up the USE flags, I include anything that I want to have compiled into the programs that I install, correct? If I don't want an option to be compiled in all programs, I prefix that with a - sign. If I want an option for a specific package, I use the package.use file. So, if I don't want to compile gnome, then I use -gnome as one of the keywords. I don't use gnome, never have, never will, but there are gnome applications that I like - gnumeric to name one, plus there are a few gnome games. So, is it my best bet to include -gnome as a keyword in my make.conf USE statement and the add it in the package.use file for those applications that need it? I'm using gnome here as an example, but if my understanding is correct, I assume this would apply to anything. And yes, I know that you can declare temporary use flags when compiling a package. Regards, Colleen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC9BU7BEKKz3fpe6IRAr1XAJ4qGnidUghGRJJ4rFnlNkk7oplWWwCgklM8 2F8vk1VeKKxL+cRpW1VoFAU= =hCzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list