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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 03:03:48
Message-Id: 200308280937.08589.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop by dams@idm.fr
1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 07:28, dams@×××.fr wrote:
2 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said:
3 > > On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:51, dams@×××.fr wrote:
4 > >> The problem is that the conclusion will tend to tune/modify the DE, and
5 > >> it seems that people here don't want that, they want vanilla DE. For
6 > >> ex., menu system is the first improvment I think of, but it has a big
7 > >> impact on the look&feel of the DE. If we don't want DE tuned, then we
8 > >> cannot use debian like menu system.
9 > >
10 > > That is true, there might be some custom parts in the DE's. I those cases
11 > > I think we should have some "vanilla" useflag that turns of
12 > > customizations/hacks that are gentoo-specific and are safe to turn of
13 >
14 > That's feasable, but may add some maintainance overloading
15
16 not really ... any code you add just put 'if [ ! `use vanilla` ] ; then'
17 around ...
18 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8732
19 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>