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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 03:37:46
Message-Id: fdb228e1-abb3-9c2f-2cac-f3335bca22ad@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults by Patrick McLean
1 On 02/02/2017 10:16 PM, Patrick McLean wrote:
2 >
3 > There are people who run servers on Gentoo, and don't particularly want
4 > minimalism, then want a normal Linux system level of functionality (ie
5 > upstream and/or sane defaults) without having to add dozens of USE
6 > flags to random packages throughout the system.
7 >
8
9 Then somebody should go through a typical Ubuntu install and add all of
10 those packages to @system. That will make most people happy, and the
11 minimalists can just mask what they don't need.