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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:17:38
Message-Id: 200608072214.04007.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax by "W.Kenworthy"
1 On Monday 07 August 2006 21:44, W.Kenworthy wrote:
2 > My personal opinion is that whilst things like modular X are good for
3 > developers, they are not so good for users - particularly gentoo users.
4
5 we provide meta packages (X/kde/gnome/etc...) for the split packages so users
6 can just emerge 1 package to get them all
7
8 on one machine i like to run kde so the meta packages are a godsend ... yet on
9 another machine, i only want k3b/kmail and nothing else so the split packages
10 too are a godsend :)
11 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>