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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:04:17 +0000 (UTC), Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |
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> Ben de Groot posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:28:24 +0100 as excerpted: |
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>> On 4 March 2010 08:08, Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Your logic is very thin here. By that same line of reasoning, neither |
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>>> are the gtk or qt flags, since you don't need 'em if you're building, |
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>>> say, a *box desktop. |
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>> Toolkits are more directly useful to a desktop than printing. |
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>>> Printing is something I'd argue is part of a desktop environment. |
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>> And I'd argue it isn't necessarily so. |
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> Indeed. Some (many?) of us use printing uncommonly enough that it's |
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> cheaper to put it on a thumb drive and take it to a printer than buy a |
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> printer -- and pay for another $10-30 ink cartridge every time we want |
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to |
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> print something, because the last one dried up between uses. (I keep |
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> thinking I'll buy a laser printer, but never seem to get around to doing |
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> the research on best supported, etc, and always seem to have other |
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things |
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> to spend the money on. Besides, the tech keeps getting better, so a bit |
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> of delay isn't hurting... which I've been saying for years now. How |
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many |
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> are in a similar position?) |
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Similarly, I have never *owned* a printer because work or school always |
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has had free printing. So, my opinion is that the Gentoo default of |
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USE=cups in desktop profiles is bogus for *my* Gentoo desktops. But, I'm |
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not a desktop profile consumer anyway because they are sub-optimal, imo. ;) |
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-Jeremy |
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