Hi all, my first post to Gentoo lists! I already installed Gentoo some time ago, and want to restart now from zero, to see how much I've learnt in the meantime. My biggest doubt has always been which USE flags to use. I do a lot of home work with multimedia stuff (audio, video...) and need also a lot of scientific and programming stuff. Tiny spare time is used to study networking and such. So I put together a list of flags, that at first sight looks huge; here it is:
USE=" cups eds emboss foomaticdb gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer imlib libg++ libwww mad mpeg -nptl pdflib spell truetype-fonts type1-fonts X xml aac aalibaccessibility acpi alsa arts avi bitmap-fonts bidi bluetooth bonobo bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dbus dga dio directfb dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode esd examples ffmpeg fftw flash fortran ftp gb gcj gif ginac gphoto2 gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal hardened icq idn iee1394 imagemagick imap inifile jabber jack java javascript joistick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libcaca lirc lm_sensors matroska mikmod mime ming mng mmx motif mozilla mp3 msn mysql mysqli nas ncurses offensive ogg openal opengl osc oss pcmcia pdf perl php png prelude python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang sockets socks5 sox speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcltk tiff usb truetype unicode v4l vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib" First question: is it a good starting point or is it excessive/unneccessary? If I avoid putting things in does it mean that if I add them in a second moment probably some of the installed stuff needs to be recompiled? Thanks, Leo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
