Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Floyd Anderson <f...@xmail.net> wrote: >> That’s why Gentoo is often regarded as the freedom of choice. > This includes the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot. > > I suggest that new users consider going with the defaults except when > they have a reason not to. > > Sure, we can all pass around our make.conf files, and people can just > blindly copy what we're using. In a sense this is also stick with the > "defaults" - just somebody else's choice of defaults. > > The difference is that if you don't do this then you're getting the > defaults the maintainer thought best, and the settings that get the > widest extent of testing. If you run into a problem, you're probably > close to the upstream configuration, which means both upstream and the > maintainer are probably going to be willing to lend you a hand. > You're also closer to the settings used by other distros, which means > their own documentation will help you. > > Stick with the profile defaults to start. By all means tweak > something if you have a reason to, but make these conscious informed > decisions. Keep things simple. > > When you start out with a very complex USE configuration on a distro > you're new to, then you're going to struggle a lot to deal with the > resulting issues. > > In terms of profiles themselves, hardened isn't the friendliest place > to start. It tends to get used in server environments, and I suspect > very few run a desktop environment in a hardened environment. I'd > suggest chatting with others who run hardened to understand its > limitations. I've been running Gentoo for a very long time now and I > wouldn't expect to do a hardened desktop install and get through it > without a bit of troubleshooting. >
Shooting oneself in the foot could be that USE="-* <insert flag> option. Talk about being brave. lol As a somewhat seasoned Gentoo user, when I built this new rig, I had to add USE flags slowly. As a test, I tried copying my USE flags over from the old install. When I did a emerge -uvaDN system, it puked all over my keyboard. I recall having blockers that emerge couldn't resolve. There were some other issues as well. I went back to defaults and added them slowly. That worked well. I've read about hardened. I've always wanted to play with it but I'd want a separate puter to play with that on. I've also wondered if it would even benefit me at all. Dale :-) :-)
