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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:54:16
Message-Id: 4B8CA7E7.6030906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by Maciej Mrozowski
1 On 3/1/10 11:09 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
2 > On Monday 01 of March 2010 22:24:56 Ben de Groot wrote:
3 >> For some reason beyond my understanding, we have the cups useflag
4 >> enabled by default in profiles. This has started to generate circular
5 >> dependencies, at least for desktop profile users (gtk -> cups ->
6 >> poppler -> gtk). I propose we no longer enable the cups useflag.
7 >
8 > Please do, as well there are some other candidates for purging from base
9 > profile, namely 'perl' and 'python' USE flags.
10
11 How do these creep in? Are there no repoman checks for that?

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