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On Friday 22 January 2010 18:15:49 Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> 2009/10/24 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>: |
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> > Hi there! |
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> > Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking |
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> > place 22 Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), |
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> > having Gentoo GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead |
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> > with splitting desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid |
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> > bloat and provide desktop specific separation which should result in |
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> > desktop subprofiles being actually practical. |
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> > It's been proposed to: |
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> > - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features |
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> > and settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using |
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> > non-KDE and non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. |
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> > Any other DE is free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if |
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> > needed. |
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> > - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within |
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> > 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should |
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> > in theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop |
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> > specific packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile |
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> > effectively 'out of the box' solution for those who need it. |
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> > If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this |
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> > change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list. |
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> > Thanks |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > regards |
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> > MM |
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> |
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> Three months later... Why has this not been implemented yet? |
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> Cheers, |
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Just for the record, I will do this tomorrow. Thanks |
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Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap) |
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Gentoo KDE Team |