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maillog: 28/10/2004-23:34:12(+0100): Peter Ruskin types |
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> On Thursday 28 October 2004 22:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > This is the main problem with -@BLAH... Too frickin' nasty, and only |
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> > supported because Kurt thinks we shouldn't protect our users from |
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> > doing silly things. I'm inclined to agree... Personally I'm in favour |
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> > of sticking in a big fat "DO NOT USE -@BLAH UNLESS YOU REALLY |
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> > UNDERSTAND IT" in the docs and leaving it at that... |
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> > | I guess then that dependencies (like X, what I indicated with a |
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> > | prefix) should not be part of the groups we define. |
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> > Oooh heck no. That kinda defeats the point, really... |
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> I don't understand why you would want X in @KDE or @GNOME - either of |
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> them would ensure you get X anyway. |
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Because if I do "USE=@GNOME" I'd expect an "emerge gnuplot" to pull in X |
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and install with X support (in other words, to have USE=X). |
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