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ambivispice
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 Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: I don't get which Flags to select during installation! |
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Which ones did you choose? I know you can change them- but ideally I would get it right the first time. Also, I think I have too many selected already. I selected all the ones that sounded like something I might use.
Any suggestions? |
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Maliwik
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Could you please post the output of emerge --info?
Also, what type of environment do you want to install? (ie. a kde environment, gnome environment, or another one) There are some general ones which might be a good start.
| Code: | | USE="audiofile alsa cdr dvd dvdr flac gif hal jpeg midi mmx mpeg mp3 ogg png vorbis tiff" |
will give your system basic sound and graphics support (and cd/dvd support with the helpful HAL support).
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AllenJB
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: |
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The best thing to do is use the defaults and change them as you go along. You'll never get them right first time.
Tips:
Add "-vat" to your emerge commands to see what USE flags each package has and why packages are being pulled in (what depends on them). You can set these permanently using DEFAULT_EMERGE_OPTS in /etc/make.conf (see /etc/make.conf.example)
You can find out what a given USE flag does using the euse utility from the gentoolkit package. eg. To find out what the server USE flag does: euse -i server |
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