[gentoo-user] A better USE flags documentation?

[Colin]

I've been Gentooing for some time now, but there are still USE flags 
that confound me.  Like "ftp" and "ssl," for instance--do you need those 
to make FTP/HTTPS connections in a web browser, or are those flags just 
for incoming connections, as with FTP/Web servers?  Does "-mozilla" 
block Firefox- and Thunderbird-related stuff?  And what happens to use 
flags that aren't specified--are they treated as "flag" or "-flag?"

I've got a lot of questions, but gentoo.org's USE flag documentation 
really isn't all that great.  More than one line about a flag would 
help.  Is there any better documentation out there?

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Colin

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