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From: Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:44:21
Message-Id: 201002260044.38261.tampakrap@gentoo.org
1 On Friday 22 January 2010 18:15:49 Ben de Groot wrote:
2 > 2009/10/24 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>:
3 > > Hi there!
4 > >
5 > > Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking
6 > > place 22 Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon),
7 > > having Gentoo GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead
8 > > with splitting desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid
9 > > bloat and provide desktop specific separation which should result in
10 > > desktop subprofiles being actually practical.
11 > > It's been proposed to:
12 > >
13 > > - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features
14 > > and settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using
15 > > non-KDE and non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat.
16 > > Any other DE is free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if
17 > > needed.
18 > >
19 > > - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within
20 > > 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should
21 > > in theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop
22 > > specific packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile
23 > > effectively 'out of the box' solution for those who need it.
24 > >
25 > > If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this
26 > > change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list.
27 > >
28 > > Thanks
29 > >
30 > > --
31 > > regards
32 > > MM
33 >
34 > Three months later... Why has this not been implemented yet?
35 >
36 > Cheers,
37
38 Just for the record, I will do this tomorrow. Thanks
39
40 --
41 Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
42 Gentoo KDE Team

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