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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 12:03:26
Message-Id: 1336305706.2625.2.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags by Rich Freeman
1 El dom, 06-05-2012 a las 07:33 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió:
2 > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > I don't think even heavyweight DE/WM usually needs ldap...
5 > >
6 >
7 > Tend to agree. I don't think we want to create a new profile every
8 > time we want to change one of the flags.
9 >
10 > Some other questionable ones:
11 > emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
12 > firefox - probably OK for what it does now, but not everybody uses it
13 > xulrunner - not even used now
14 >
15 > There will always be some level of variation if you are looking at
16 > single flags. What matters isn't coming up with profiles that exactly
17 > match all of our users, but rather ones that are good for 80+% of
18 > them.
19 >
20 > As far as ldap goes, if we wanted an "enterprise desktop" profile that
21 > might be a good fit for such a configuration. I agree that -ldap
22 > isn't really a lightweight desktop so much as a normal one. If you
23 > really wanted "lightweight" then you'd probably not be running desktop
24 > at all, or the regular desktop vs kde/gnome.
25
26 Maybe "desktop" should be more lightweight oriented and for people (like
27 me) wanting more, use gnome/kde instead (or create xfce/lxde... if they
28 need other flags...)
29 >
30 > The bottom line is that we don't need 47 different profile targets -
31 > there will always be a "use" for 1 more. That's why we all run Gentoo
32 > - we aren't bound by the decisions made for us by the package
33 > maintainers.
34 >
35 > Rich
36 >
37 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>