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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:16:44
Message-Id: e117dbb91001220815r7f55508bxfffd8b954a677d43@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME by Maciej Mrozowski
1 2009/10/24 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>:
2 > Hi there!
3 >
4 > Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking place 22
5 > Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), having Gentoo
6 > GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead with splitting
7 > desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid bloat and provide desktop
8 > specific separation which should result in desktop subprofiles being actually
9 > practical.
10 > It's been proposed to:
11 >
12 > - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features and
13 > settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using non-KDE and
14 > non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. Any other DE is
15 > free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if needed.
16 >
17 > - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within
18 > 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should in
19 > theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop specific
20 > packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile effectively 'out
21 > of the box' solution for those who need it.
22 >
23 > If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this
24 > change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list.
25 >
26 > Thanks
27 >
28 > --
29 > regards
30 > MM
31 >
32
33 Three months later... Why has this not been implemented yet?
34
35 Cheers,
36 --
37 Ben de Groot
38 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
39 ______________________________________________________

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>