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On 01/17/2013 08:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca> |
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> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman |
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>> <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with |
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>>> -cups, but the whole point is to target the TYPICAL user. And |
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>>> the context here is servers - how many servers would have |
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>>> chromium installed with -cups? If anything I'd expect more |
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>>> servers to have CUPS installed than chromium in the first |
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>>> place. |
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>> Sorry, I thought the point was to make the base profile “sane |
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>> but minimal”, not to make it server-specific. In that case |
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>> USE=cups might make sense. |
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> We might be talking past each other. Sane but minimal is the |
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> target. |
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> Bottom line is that the question isn't whether a minimal system |
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> should have CUPS installed (that would be an argument for putting |
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> it in @system - ugh!). The question is whether a minimal/base |
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> system should have the cups USE-flag enabled for packages that |
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> actually use it. |
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> And cups is just an example - maybe not a good one. I just want |
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> to make sure we're not just dropping flags left and right that |
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> everybody and their uncle will either re-enable, or won't notice |
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> them being removed anyway. |
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> Rich |
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If you want to make the base profile the "sane minimal" one, dropping |
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flags is the right way to go. And cups does not belong to such a |
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profile. Minimal should be ehh minimal and other profiles should build |
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on top of it. Let the other profiles enable the flags they need. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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