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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] default desktop profile
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:59:05
Message-Id: 46B3885E.9070707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] default desktop profile by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 18:53 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 >> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:27 +0200, Martin Schwier wrote:
5 >>>> +ppds (everyone has a printer, and this is needed to configure it
6 >>>> without further investigations. cups is already in)
7 >>>> +startup-notification
8 >>> Well, we don't add local USE flags to the default profiles unless there
9 >>> is a *very* good reason. I really don't have a problem with any of
10 >>> these being added, but I'd rather hear the opinions of my peers.
11 >> I am very strongly in support of ppds, as I consider it critical for us
12 >> to make printers easier to set up.
13 >
14 > This one should be on, actually. It was enabled for 2006.1 but somehow
15 > got turned back off for 2007.0's release.
16
17 We disabled it to try to get the size of the x86/amd64 LiveCDs down.
18
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20 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
21 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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Re: [gentoo-dev] default desktop profile Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>