On Friday 05 March 2010 17:12:23 Roy Bamford wrote: > > That's not a new install as per the handbook. Neither are you a new > user as you have a premade make.conf and world file and some experience > with Gentoo. > > Put yourself in the place of a brand new Gentoo user doing his/her > first install. > > It needs to just work out of the box, one way or another, without > forums posts or calls for help in #gentoo about circular dependences. > That's not just cups - thats all circular dependencies.
Brand new gentoo user goes throu handbook -> reads "set up USE variables in make.conf" and does it according to his/her needs following use.*.desc. If gentoo was new to me i *would* enter cups as i use printers often at work. -- Cheers Dawid Węgliński