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On Saturday 24 of October 2009 16:00:03 Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> Just so it is clear and there aren't any questions in the future. The |
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> XFCE team maintains a set of recommended global use flags in our docs[1] |
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> (maintained by Josh (nightmorph)). So, whatever direction this ends up, |
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> xfce will not be going down that same road. |
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Well, if XFCE 'satisfying use deps' USE flags are not excessive, I think they |
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could stay in desktop (parent) profile of course as desktop profile is meant |
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for general use desktop. This would address some parts of Nirbheek's concern. |
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> Additionally, One cool thing about Gentoo is that you *can* have more |
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> than one DE installed. We don't have things like KGentoo =P I hope this |
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> profile thing doesn't make it harder for end users to use GNOME and KDE |
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> at the same time. |
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That's the 'edge' case we encounter. Of course splitting desktop profile |
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*will* make it harder for them to have GNOME and KDE at the same time. But, to |
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be clear, we're talking here mainly about default USE flags (not gnome-base/* |
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entries in package.mask in KDE subprofile... hmm, jmbsvicetto? worth |
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considering... ;) ) |
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Splitting profiles is to provide out of the box desktop specific solutions |
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(because that's what majority uses afaik, though I don't have any poll to back |
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my words), not to prevent anyone from mixing things - those may just need the |
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same package.use/make.conf effort to set it up (mainly to satisfy USE deps, as |
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one can put recommended USE flags in +EAPI-1 IUSE in desktop environment |
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ebuilds after all). |
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regards |
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MM |