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When it all comes down, I just fail to see how the handbook doesn't |
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provide the pointers. I've always been about getting my system up and |
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running, and then learn whatever needs learning, this means that whilst I |
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didn't have more than a basic knowledge and understanding of useflags when |
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installing, that knowledge has grown due to necessity of using gentoo to |
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it's full potential. I think setting up useflags should be left to the |
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user. A system can be recompiled should the need arise. |
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The reason I chose gentoo as my distribution was that, it seemed to me |
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that it gives you a basic knowledge of the system and then encourages to |
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gain and apply further knowledge according to need. |
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But again, the handbook gives all the necessary pointers, albeit there can |
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occur conflicts that are outside of the range of the handbook, but that's |
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why the forums and the irc channels are there :-) |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:58:57 +0100, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
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> I don't see why having some nice polished sets of use flags is a bad |
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> thing. Personally, I find it a pain when I've emerged half of my system |
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> only to find out I left out some critical use flag (my use flags take up |
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> several lines now). Sure, leave users a choice, but there is no harm in |
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> giving them some pointers. |
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> Gentoo should be fully usable in a USE="" state, but that doesn't mean |
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> that we need to make users start out from this point. |
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