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On 8/2/07, Martin Schwier <martin@×××××××.cc> wrote: |
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> Hello developers, |
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> today I posted a bug (187475) about a minor issue about the useflag |
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> libnotify not beeing in the default desktop profile. Me was told that |
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> this sould be discussed on gentoo-dev. I can't really understand why |
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> such a minor issue have to be discussed among all developers as there |
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> are certainly much more importand things to do. |
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> Beeing a user I have the feeling that bugs concerning such minor issues |
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> aren't welcome among the gentoo developers. I consider it important for |
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> gentoo to regard such details too achieve a more polished gnome desktop |
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> experience by default as we have now. |
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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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> I agree that there is too much enabled by default, but other things are |
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> missing. I personally need kerberos and ldap but that shouldn't be the |
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> default for most singel-user desktop installations. |
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> So, these are my proposed changes for the default desktop profile: |
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> +bash-completion |
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> +bluetooth |
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Most Probably dont have/want bluetooth. I know at most 1 linux users |
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who would use it. |
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> +ffmpeg (totem isn't much without it) |
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> +libnotify (gives very nice popup notifications in many programs instead |
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> of an annoying, workflow interrupting dialog box with an OK button) |
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> +ppds (everyone has a printer, and this is needed to configure it |
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> without further investigations. cups is already in) |
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No, not everyone has a printer :P |
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> +startup-notification |
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> -fortran (not 1% of the desktop users need fortran and it speeds up |
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> the compile) |
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> -kerberos |
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> -ldap |
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I just turned these off myself. Why?,, i like compiling for hours with |
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emerge --newuse ;) |
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The millions of lines of text make me feel geeky ;) ( lol ) |
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> I'm curious about your comments, |
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> -- |
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> Martin Schwier |
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> Gentoo user ;) |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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Kent |
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