package.use (with annotations)

*/* device-mapper lvm luks #required by the RootFS over encrypted LVM HOWTO.
sys-kernel/linux-firmware initramfs #ditto.
dev-libs/boost threads #suggested by user on Discord to fix error encountered when following the above HOWTO.
sys-devel/gcc doc #for extra doumentation (there really should be a mix-in for this, but...)
sys-devel/gettext doc #ditto...
sys-fs/cryptsetup kernel -openssl -udev #required to get cryptsetup to emerge with static libs (rq'd by genkernel).
dev-libs/libbsd static-libs  #requested by portage the first time I tried to update after changing the line above.
app-crypt/libmd static-libs  #ditto.

# I added kernel, -openssl, and -udev to the line for sys-fs/cryptsetup in order to fix a problem with conflicting USE flags that occured when I had tried to update my system before.