you can simply emerge --pretend --verbose apache
to see the default available USE flags for that package, and USE="[use flags switches]" emerge apache > Thanks! > I'm new to Gentoo, installing it for a week now. > I'm still on kde installation. > Whew! > So for apache: > 1. edit /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc > 2. add lines next to > net-www/apache:blah, blah > net-www/apache:<additional option here> > net-www/apache:<some more here> > 3. emerge apache > Is this okay? -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie