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On Monday 18 June 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> I'm not sure USE flags for the meta packages are a good idea, they |
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> could add a lot of confusion. The meta packages are supposed to |
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> install everything, if you don't want that, don't use them. |
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I think what Alexander is on about is USE flags only for features that |
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require other sub-systems outside KDE to be installed as well. Like ppp |
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for example, or printers and scanners for another. Obviously a policy |
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run by a human is what it will take otherwise it gets out of hand very |
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very quickly. |
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'emerge *-meta' is fine if one wants everything, or 'emerge kopete kmail |
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konqueror' if you just want a few bits like me, but there's this large |
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no-man's land in the middle where it is just unweildy. No fault of |
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Gentoo, it's all KDEs fault for having 300+ distinct apps/code |
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bodies :-) |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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