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This page documents flavors and mix-ins, which are components of Funtoo profiles:

Flavors

A system can have only one flavor profile enabled at a time. The following flavors are available:

minimal

This flavor defines the most minimal possible flavor. It currently only contains defaults for all Funtoo Linux flavors.

core

The core flavor is the minimal flavor plus reasonable USE options, and is used for stage3 builds.

server

The server flavor is intended for servers but at this time just tracks core.

desktop

The desktop flavor is intended for desktop systems. It includes commonly-selected desktop-related software and hardware options. It currently pulls in the following mix-ins automatically: dvd, media, audio, workstation.

Mix-ins

A system can have any number of mix-ins enabled at a time. The following mix-ins are available:

audio

Enables core audio-related settings, currently related to ALSA.

console-extras

Enables things that are nice to have for console-only systems. Currently enabling gpm in USE.

dvd

USE settings related to optical drives -- CDR/DVD-ROM/RW use.

gnome

USE and package.use settings required to merge GNOME.

kde

USE and package.use settings required to merge KDE.

media

USE settings related to audio/video media encoding. Can be for desktops or servers.

print

Enables printing capability.

rhel5-compat

settings required for running a system that uses a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-based kernel.

workstation

settings related to desktops -- will be integrated into the desktop flavor in the future.

xfce

USE settings required for merging XFCE.