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On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> Hola all. |
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> So, fex, the following flags are rather desktop specific- |
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> alsa |
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> arts |
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> avi |
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> bitmap-fonts |
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> cups |
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> eds |
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> emboss (why the hell is "European Molecular Biology Open Software |
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> Suite" |
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> a profile default? Seems extremely specialized) |
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> encode |
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> fortran |
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> foomaticdb |
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> gnome |
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> gstreamer |
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> gtk |
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> gtk2 |
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> imlib |
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> kde |
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> mad |
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> mikmod |
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> motif |
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> mp3 |
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> mpeg |
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> ogg |
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> oggvorbis |
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> oss |
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> png |
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> qt |
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> quicktime |
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> sdl |
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> spell |
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> truetype |
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> truetype-fonts |
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> type1-fonts |
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> vorbis |
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> xml2 |
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> xmms |
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When I did my first Gentoo install in the 1.4ish era, I was pretty |
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shocked to see roughly this same insane list. I quickly learned about |
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the -* trick, as the main thing that brought me to this distro was |
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the minimalist factor. As you pointed out, -* is pretty ugly as it |
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leaves the user with the task of recreating a sane default use list. |
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> So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? |
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Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades |
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for what they seem to be made for. |
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--Kito |
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> My slightly flamey 2 cents |
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> ~harring |
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