Important: The following is only an example. It is in no way meant as a recommended setup.

Code Listing 2.38: Emerge GNOME

mybox etc # emerge -vp gnome

(Look at the list of packages and their USE flags,

then edit make.conf if required.

mybox etc # nano -w /etc/make.conf

(The following USE flags have been defined)

USE="nptl nptlonly -ipv6 -fortran unicode svg hal dbus \

-kde -qt4 -arts -eds -esd gnome gstreamer gtk firefox"

mybox etc # time emerge gnome

(326 packages have been emerged)

real 520m44.532s

user 339m21.144s

sys 146m22.337s

Code Listing 2.39: Emerge KDE

mybox etc # emerge -vp kde-meta

(Look at the list of packages and their USE flags,

then edit make.conf if required.

mybox etc # nano -w /etc/make.conf

The following USE flags have been defined)

USE="nptl nptlonly -ipv6 -fortran unicode svg hal dbus \

kde qt4 -arts -eds -esd -gnome -gstreamer -gtk -firefox"

mybox etc # time emerge kde-meta

(391 packages have been emerged)

real 1171m25.318s

user 851m26.393s

sys 281m45.629s