On Tue, Jul 21 2015, Peter Humphrey wrote: > But this conversation touches on a more general point: which profile > is best at each stage of an installation? I've had to rebuild my KDE > system a few times recently (at least I thought I did at the time, but > that's another story). I settled on a vanilla profile in the early > stages, with USE=-X in make.conf, then changed it to +X and installed > xorg-server. Then I switched to the KDE desktop profile and installed > KDE, finally adding all the bits and pieces that go to make up a > complete system. Last of all, an emerge -e world tidied everything up > neatly. > > The installation handbook could be clearer on this.
Indeed. It would probably be too much to ask that it mentions each case separately, but it could include a general comment that taking a few smaller steps can be easier than going directly to the final profile. allan
