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asterism OP wrote

In all seriousness I just want a better understanding of compilation and compile flags. Plus being able to customize stuff with lots of flags is cool (take vim for example)

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MountainMan wrote

I highly suggest trying to create one or two of your own ebuilds when you get the hang of Gentoo. It can really shed some light on the connection between USE flags and the compile flags used by gcc.

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