Duncan wrote:
Actually, yes. Gentoo has never been a hand-holding distribution. We try to provide documentation and reasonable defaults for any apps the user chooses to install, and let the user configure what they will.
Gentoo is about choice. Well, except for the choice to not have to choose...
I don't see why having some nice polished sets of use flags is a bad thing. Personally, I find it a pain when I've emerged half of my system only to find out I left out some critical use flag (my use flags take up several lines now). Sure, leave users a choice, but there is no harm in giving them some pointers.
Gentoo should be fully usable in a USE="" state, but that doesn't mean that we need to make users start out from this point.
