[gentoo-user] A /etc/make.conf Question

[John Lowell]

I'm in the middle of a stage 1 install of 1.4_rc4 at the moment, having reached Step 15, Installing The Kernel and a System Logger. The instructions are quite explicit at this point, there's a note instructing you to edit /etc/make.conf to your kernel flavor. An exhaustive review of /etc/make.conf offers nothing in the way of a reference to the kernel, no line to comment, uncomment or edit as is the case with other items. The word kernel isn't mentioned anywhere in the file. That leaves one possibility, a new entry, but where and in what style or format ? I'm confused as to how to proceed.   John Lowell