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Quoth Gabriel Ebner (Tue 2004-05-25 12:34:11PM +0200): |
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> foser wrote: |
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> > This has been brought up before. Gentoo minimizes branding and I do not |
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> > think this warrants yet another USE flag. This is exactly what the |
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> > 'hardened php' thread was about, introducing USE flags for such |
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> > trivialities. |
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What is trivial to you may not be to others. |
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> > Using another splash screen for gnome is editing 1 gconf key. I do not |
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> > consider it intrusive (you see it for like 3 secs & how often do you log |
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> > in) & I never had one complaint about it (on the contrary). |
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> However, such a branding USE flag would be nice, and there are currently two |
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> packages in ebuilds which could make use of it (gnome, gdm) AFAIK, with |
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> maybe apache coming. |
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> I suspect that there are other users out there who'd like to have a more |
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> vanilla system. |
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Exactly! If there was ever a good candidate for a global USE flag, |
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this is it. Some might want vanilla packages, some might want the |
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Gentoo "bling-bling", why not let them choose, especially since |
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people have gone to the trouble of creating awesome Gentoo artwork! :) |
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Foser, we cannot just refuse to add new flags when there is a compelling |
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reason for one! Just because you think there are too many USE flags is |
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*not* a good reason to be against adding any more just out of principle! |
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