On Saturday 24 October 2009, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking
> place 22 Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available
> soon), having Gentoo GNOME team representative, it's been decided to
> go ahead with splitting desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles,
> to avoid bloat and provide desktop specific separation which should
> result in desktop subprofiles being actually practical.

(From your email) I fail to see the advantage as other commenters have 
pointed out. What problem is there that cannot be solved using 
dependencies and kde/gnome use flags? This decision just seems to 
increase the split between KDE and Gnome and that does not reflect 
user's realities: They use both. Gnome desktop + kmail, k3b, yakuake or 
KDE with evince, etc.

Why add one more decision to make where the result is unclear (and 
honestly, profile documentation is almost zero)?


Robert