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On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:22 -0700, Erik Swanson wrote: |
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> I like the idea, but I'd appreciate being able to turn it off with |
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> something like USE="-branding". |
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> 'branding' is a global use flag I'd like to see implemented that would |
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> toggle all branding (logos/artwork, custom themes, mentions of gentoo |
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> in a package's build info, etc...) of packages. I do think such a flag |
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> would belong in make.defaults because branding is a reasonable thing to |
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> do by default and even I would only want to turn it off in a few cases. |
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> (Examples of branding I'd like to turn off are the gnome splash screen, |
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> qmail's banner, the apache banner on error pages, and of course this.) |
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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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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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- foser |
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