On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Brian Kelsay wrote: > I'm part way into my new gentoo install and I'm not sure of what I'm doing. > I am inside the new Gentoo on the PC and I am in nano ready to set compile > variables. This is Gentoo 1.4 rc2 on a Pent. II 333 with a LX chipset > board (pre BX), 256MB Ram, 20GB HDD, ATI Rage Pro 2x AGP 8MB, 3Com 905 Nic > and a Creative ES137x sound card. As you can see it's nothing fancy, but a > spare box. I want to try out some different window managers on this so I > have included the gnome and kde specific flags and stuff for multimedia, but > do I really need all this stuff in there? If no, what do I really need? > > Here is the USE line I have so far: > > USE="X gtk gnome -alsa acpi apm arts bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode fbcon > gb gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gtkhtml imap imlib java jikes jpeg kde ldap libgda > libwww mbox mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses oav odbc oggvorbis opengl > pam pda perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang > slp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usbxface xml xml2 xmms xv zlib > x86" You are pretty much including everything. Here's a list of your options the gentoo dealer will outfit your new shiny car with: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml You can change these later to fit your ever changing preferences. A negative sign in front will disable that feature. Might I suggest to emerge mplayer sometime. It will let you play every multimedia file known so far, including dvd's, wmv, mpeg, quicktime, etc... Also, I prefer phoenix over mozilla. Mozilla is a whale and phoenix is an agile killer whale without that fat. -- Why drive a car when you can ride a bike? http://dattaway.org http://counter.li.org user #142150