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From: AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:43:32
Message-Id: 4AE5996F.5090508@allenjb.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME by Samuli Suominen
1 Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > AllenJB wrote:
3 >> * Why is the developer profile even shown on "eselect profile"? Wouldn't
4 >> it be better to keep "unsupported" profiles off this list. Surely Gentoo
5 >> devs can cope with setting their profile manually in favor of a little
6 >> sanity preservation for the rest of us?
7 >
8 > It's not only for Gentoo developers, but for /Software/ developers in
9 > general. IMHO.
10 >
11 General software developers should have the following features enabled?
12 - test (all test suites)
13 - stricter (horribly strict portage handling)
14 - digest (ignore package digests)
15 - cvs (not even documented in "man make.conf")
16 - sign (gpg key signing for cvs manifest commits)
17
18 As well as the infamous
19 I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING="yes"
20
21 Certainly test, stricter and digest are all known to me to cause issues
22 for anyone who doesn't understand what they do and why.
23
24 AllenJB