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. -- Rich
