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 4. gsettings and kwriteconfig6 are set (same as dist-arch).
 
 ## Recommended use flags (useflags)
+- **The recommended useflags are not required, this is a more out of the box experience with these**
 - Pipewire is used, alsa and pulseaudio are disabled (enabling them won't hurt).
 - Init system is not assumed or considered so disabling systemd should be done in make.conf, same with session managers (elogind is recommended).
 
 ## Making the dot-files work
+- elogind is expected to be installed and run as a service on OpenRC to set _$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR_
+  - NOT recommended: seatd will require more manual setup
 - pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and wireplumber must be started after a dbus-session is created and before Hyprland is launched.
 
 If you want to start after logging into tty1 you can do something like this.