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Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> Hi there! |
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> Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking place 22 |
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> Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), having Gentoo |
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> GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead with splitting |
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> desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid bloat and provide desktop |
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> specific separation which should result in desktop subprofiles being actually |
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> practical. |
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> It's been proposed to: |
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> - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features and |
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> settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using non-KDE and |
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> non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. Any other DE is |
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> free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if needed. |
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Hi, |
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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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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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-Jeremy |
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[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml |
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> - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within |
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> 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should in |
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> theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop specific |
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> packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile effectively 'out |
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> of the box' solution for those who need it. |
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> If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this |
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> change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list. |
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> Thanks |
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