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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 23:20 +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> On 11 March 2010 21:20, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 02:36 +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> >> Seeing as there were no further comments, I think we are good to go! |
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> > I suggest reading my comments... |
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> Unless I missed something, you didn't make any comments on this |
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> thread. |
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The subthread got renamed to more fit its purpose. |
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> If you mean the thread you started that tangentially took off from this |
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> one, about eselect profile improvements: I support that proposal, |
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> but it will take some time to get implemented. Is anyone already |
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> working on that? |
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> In the meantime I see no reason for that to halt or postpone the |
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> current desktop profile improvements as prepared by Theo. |
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I argued that it's a bad idea to add yet more profiles, when we could |
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avoid that (while even improving things additionally). |
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But I guess I'll have to bring some direct points why I think |
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implementing the alternative as I described ASAP is better than ever |
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doing this gnome/kde subprofile thing: |
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* The split desktop profile plan retroactively modifies 2008.0 and 10.0 |
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profiles. Not a good thing for obvious reasons. (Of course the |
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subprofiles could also be added together with a new release, as proposed |
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for the alternative idea) |
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* Adding yet more subprofiles, increasing repoman and pcheck time, |
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possibly confusing users (migration things; changing USE flags in a |
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perceived stable release profile leading to unexpected --newuse |
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triggering, etc) |
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* Making it harder to get both GNOME and KDE things out of a profile |
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(though the common things in desktop profile right now is quite |
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suboptimal for GNOME) |
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* Putting the problem of suboptimal subprofiles handling under the |
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carpet again, greatly reducing the motivation for people to work on the |
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alternative better proposal |
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-- |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: leio@g.o |
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Weblog: http://blogs.gentoo.org/leio |