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From: Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:42:27
Message-Id: 200910241542.17701.reavertm@gmail.com
1 Hi there!
2
3 Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking place 22
4 Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), having Gentoo
5 GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead with splitting
6 desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid bloat and provide desktop
7 specific separation which should result in desktop subprofiles being actually
8 practical.
9 It's been proposed to:
10
11 - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features and
12 settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using non-KDE and
13 non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. Any other DE is
14 free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if needed.
15
16 - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within
17 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should in
18 theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop specific
19 packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile effectively 'out
20 of the box' solution for those who need it.
21
22 If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this
23 change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list.
24
25 Thanks
26
27 --
28 regards
29 MM

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