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Martin Schwier wrote: |
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> To come to the bug, I'll comment Jakub Moc's last comment: |
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>> As said above - bloating default profiles even more goes to gentoo-dev mailing |
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>> list, so that people could comment. I for one am already annoyed enough by the |
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>> nonsense being added there, such as USE=kerberos or USE=ldap. |
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As Donnie recently talked/blogged about philosophy ... |
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One of the core Gentoo philosophies is that it's a meta distribution. As |
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such, the idea of "opt in" rather than "opt out" has been the motto for |
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quite a while. It's one defining trait of Gentoo. |
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I'll go with Jakub on this one. Adding more stuff is only a disservice |
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to everyone, including our users. Some use flags can do a lot of harm if |
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you try to take them out : directfb and xcb are 2 painful examples. |
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My 2 euro cents. :) |
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Rémi |
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