Section 6b Configuring Portage/Choosing the right profile: There is no description of "a profile" which says: (i) The target of the link /etc/make.profile is a DIRECTORY (not a file); (ii) What files are part of a profile and what they do; (iii) That files with the same name all the way up the directory path are relevant, with the lower files taking precedence over the higher ones. The manual doesn't say whether I should edit a profile or not. It doesn't recommend a profile for the first installation (unless the Code Listing 2.2 is a recommendation; it isn't very explicit). Without the above description, sentences such as "The default USE settings are placed in the make.defaults files of your profile" are difficult to understand. Reproducible: Always I am a new Gentoo user, but an experienced Linux user. I was hit by this lack of documentation whilst doing my first installation. This lack has caused me several days confusion and frustration, finally resolved by the good guys on gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org. See the thread in the URL in this bug report. I have spent (?lost) many hours fruitlessly searching the rest of the Gentoo site for this info. Please fix the docs! Thanks in advance!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 232903 ***
