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On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 21:06:33 -0500 |
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Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 02/02/2017 09:00 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: |
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> > Consider: a new user, coming from Ubuntu or Fedora or Windows, |
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> > starts building their system. They start installing packages they |
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> > want, only to find that half of the package isn't there because no |
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> > USE flags were enabled. They have to enable these flags for almost |
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> > every package they want because there's no defaults, you must |
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> > manually specify anything that's not a direct dependency or forced |
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> > by profile. |
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> |
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> Desktop profile!!!!!!!!!! We have a desktop profile!!! Why is the base |
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> profile a better location for new-user-with-a-desktop defaults than |
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> the **desktop** profile? |
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> I'm going crazy. I give up. |
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There are people who run servers on Gentoo, and don't particularly want |
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minimalism, then want a normal Linux system level of functionality (ie |
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upstream and/or sane defaults) without having to add dozens of USE |
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flags to random packages throughout the system. |
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