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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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- 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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regards |
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MM |