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On Wednesday 03 March 2010 22:51:10 Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> On 3 March 2010 19:45, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I don't believe we should selectively cripple one GUI toolkit with not |
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> > having proper printing support out of the box on a desktop profile, |
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> > while others do, just because maintainers are lazy. |
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> I'm not talking about selectively disabling cups. My proposal is |
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> to no longer enable the cups useflag in the base profile. I don't |
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> think cups should be part of the base profile, and as a result |
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> cascading to the desktop profile. And a lot of people seem to |
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> agree. Users can always enable that functionality when they |
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> need it. It is not something that is necessary for running a |
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> desktop system. |
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> Cheers, |
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How is that going to fix circular dependency problem? What will you do if every |
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user add cups to USE in make.conf? Say "we don't support cups turned on by |
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default"? I hope no. Removing this flag from profile will not fix any problem but |
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hide it. |
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Cheers |
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Dawid Węgliński |