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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: vapier@g.o, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:22:40
Message-Id: 200308290522.16819.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop by Mike Frysinger
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4 IMO, the USE flag should be needed to enable customizations, not to disable
5 them. 'vanilla' should be the default with '-*'
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7 On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:37 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
8 > On Thursday 28 August 2003 07:28, dams@×××.fr wrote:
9 > > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said:
10 > > > On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:51, dams@×××.fr wrote:
11 > > >> The problem is that the conclusion will tend to tune/modify the DE,
12 > > >> and it seems that people here don't want that, they want vanilla DE.
13 > > >> For ex., menu system is the first improvment I think of, but it has a
14 > > >> big impact on the look&feel of the DE. If we don't want DE tuned, then
15 > > >> we cannot use debian like menu system.
16 > > >
17 > > > That is true, there might be some custom parts in the DE's. I those
18 > > > cases I think we should have some "vanilla" useflag that turns of
19 > > > customizations/hacks that are gentoo-specific and are safe to turn of
20 > >
21 > > That's feasable, but may add some maintainance overloading
22 >
23 > not really ... any code you add just put 'if [ ! `use vanilla` ] ; then'
24 > around ...
25 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8732
26 > -mike
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