[Sussex] More gentoo problems!!!

[John D.]

Hi list,

Guess what? I've ball's it up again. Don't quite understand how though, as I 
was trying to get my printers installed and configured at the time.

Anyway, the current "batch" or questions are really research, for when I 
re-install (in total confusion, I just re-installed my mandrake, so I had 
some sort of linux install, that I could use).

When installing desktop's, configuring printing and probably various other 
delight's that I've yet to discover, the various guides make mention of 
editing the /etc/make.conf and adding the necessary "USE flags".

Now, I've got the gentoo guide to use flags, but I don't quite follow. If, 
when I've got a desktop up and running and put the line:

USE="qt kde -gtk -gnome"

so the system knows that I'm a kde fan, and aren't really interested in using 
gnome etc, can I then just change it when adding the printers and have just 
the one line i.e.

USE=qt kde -gtk -gnome cups foomaticdb ppds"

or do I need to put in additional "use" lines for each thing, as in: 

USE="qt kde -gtk -gnome"
USE="cups foomaticdb ppds"


regards

John D.