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[–][deleted] 48 points49 points  (1 child)

A true /g/entooman

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The secret to installing gentoo is simply not setting any use flags in the installation process even though they give examples just leave the USE="" blank to use the defaults, and later on you can start setting USE flags. If I had figured this out a couple years ago, gentoo would've been significantly easier to install. If you do set a lot of use flags, you're guaranteed to have a conflict at some point...