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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
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 07:31:30
Message-Id: 4B8CBE6F.3040106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On 03/02/2010 07:53 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > On 3/1/10 11:09 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
3 >> On Monday 01 of March 2010 22:24:56 Ben de Groot wrote:
4 >>> For some reason beyond my understanding, we have the cups useflag
5 >>> enabled by default in profiles. This has started to generate circular
6 >>> dependencies, at least for desktop profile users (gtk -> cups ->
7 >>> poppler -> gtk). I propose we no longer enable the cups useflag.
8 >>
9 >> Please do, as well there are some other candidates for purging from base
10 >> profile, namely 'perl' and 'python' USE flags.
11 >
12 > How do these creep in? Are there no repoman checks for that?
13 >
14
15 Commits to profiles are not done with repoman and there's no checks in
16 it either. A lot of stuff is on by default because of history. Disabling
17 them didn't really make sense before we had EAPI 2.
18
19 Regards,
20 Petteri

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