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Hi All, |
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First, I'm going to comment on some of the things that have been |
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discussed in the "Gentoo Badges" thread. My opinion - Linux is not |
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rocket science, there's just a bit of a learning curve to it. I know |
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what I'm talking about because my computer background before starting |
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to learn Linux was a few courses in Windows applications. I did take |
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a DOS course in the early '90's and I guess that's where I learned to |
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love the command line and that's one of the things I love about Linux. |
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Linux sometimes frustrated me royally when I did my first install of |
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Redhat back in the days of 6.0. However, I didn't start using Linux |
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seriously until Redhat 9. Even then, dependencies were an effort. |
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But I wanted to learn and luckily, I had a friend who was very patient |
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at helping me over my initial hurdles (can't go to him for help with |
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Gentoo though - he hasn't "seen the light"! :-) ) |
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Having said that, if I didn't have a few years of Linux under my belt |
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and also a basic Unix course, Gentoo would probably be too much for |
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me. However, from where I sit now, I'm determined to learn Gentoo and |
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am finding that I have learned a few things already. And I think a |
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key is how much you want to learn something. |
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So, now to the main point of this. After my 2nd Gentoo install, which |
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progressed farther than the first because I corrected something I |
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missed, I couldn't startx because my video card didn't seem to be |
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recognized. I'm not sure that I undertstand why because I watched |
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very closely when booting the Gentoo Live CD and it gave me the exact |
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name of my video card. |
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Anyway, a few people on this list suggested that I recompile the |
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kernel. The only time I have every compiled a kernel is when I did it |
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on installing Gentoo and by following the Handbook. Ergo, I wasn't |
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sure exactly what I needed to do when recompiling it sort of |
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"midstream". Hence, I decided to go back to square on and follow the |
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installation steps from the beginning and see if I could correct what |
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was wrong. |
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You're probably thinking that I'm nuts, but this is a learning |
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experience for me and besides I think it's fun. |
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Now for the question. I need confirmation of my understanding. In |
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the make.conf file when setting up the USE flags, I include anything |
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that I want to have compiled into the programs that I install, |
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correct? If I don't want an option to be compiled in all programs, I |
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prefix that with a - sign. If I want an option for a specific |
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package, I use the package.use file. |
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So, if I don't want to compile gnome, then I use -gnome as one of the |
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keywords. I don't use gnome, never have, never will, but there are |
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gnome applications that I like - gnumeric to name one, plus there are |
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a few gnome games. So, is it my best bet to include -gnome as a |
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keyword in my make.conf USE statement and the add it in the |
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package.use file for those applications that need it? |
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I'm using gnome here as an example, but if my understanding is |
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correct, I assume this would apply to anything. And yes, I know that |
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you can declare temporary use flags when compiling a package. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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