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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] remove cups from releases/make.defaults ?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 09:05:53
Message-Id: 4FA63DF4.40408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] remove cups from releases/make.defaults ? by Ben
1 On 05/06/2012 04:58 AM, Ben wrote:
2 > On 6 May 2012 04:45, hasufell<hasufell@g.o> wrote:
3 >> # grep ^USE /usr/portage/profiles/releases/make.defaults
4 >> USE="acl cups gdbm gpm nptl nptlonly sysfs unicode"
5 >>
6 >> This is used by "/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/10.0" for
7 >> example, so I have "cups" in default NON-DESKTOP profile like it was a
8 >> mandatory useflag.
9 >>
10 >> Is it? I don't even have a printer and expect that profile to be the
11 >> very minimum.
12 >>
13 >> This would rather be a useflag for targets/desktop/make.defaults imo.
14 >>
15 >> I see a similar discussion has happened 2 years ago, but I don't see a
16 >> solution there.
17 >>
18 >
19 > I would argue (and I did 2 years ago) that it doesn't belong even in
20 > the desktop profile. I'm certainly not the only desktop user who
21 > hasn't had a printer in years.
22 >
23 > Cheers,
24 > Ben | yngwin
25 >
26
27 +1 for getting rid of it everywhere in profiles, it's one of those steps
28 you do during installation as first thing,
29 set USE="-cups" (when you realize GTK+ pulling it in for printing
30 widgets/dialogs)