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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:18:03
Message-Id: e117dbb91003041417k2e12bac3w5b81b5bec7c429e9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by Dale
1 On 4 March 2010 21:01, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Removing the cups USE flag still doesn't fix the problem I pointed out in
3 > another reply.  If you unpack the tarball and set the USE line as you
4 > should, the circular dependency is still there.  Correct?  So nothing is
5 > "fixed" by doing this.
6
7 What it fixes is (1) the circular dependency that people run into on a
8 fresh install and the default desktop profile, and (2) the default
9 dependency on cups that many users do not need.
10
11 What it does not fix is the case of users who enable both cairo and
12 cups useflags on a system where neither gtk+ nor cups is present
13 yet. But this issue can be discussed separately from whether cups
14 should be enabled in profiles.
15
16 Cheers,
17 --
18 Ben de Groot
19 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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