From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkmjF-0000YM-EE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:02:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CE65E09F5 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5DFE090F; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so6882283fxm.26 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Qf3c5LYAAZmKpCXSVpO8IA/RdgEETibUBNPG2+jogU0=; b=HMGewULDvU7O0uGaD5kazhm9AQfApmhkKMPm3mwR7OCqgwlerZs3/l6wzIYsNr9aZj zo+8pOt6p+CQLmBgvU6GGL3XcogJRKDVDj7RT2PuMn5YJbyq9XwQDNPsQucrIrNCNrKK ySobOchat/J3+ySauLHt/Zo/vAcL19pJAACQI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Dcg5AWcY/oTooJe+w5kcRTxWKnt3ibkdIFMys9CRm3M+RyiY++cJyJ+QNL1dFXzsjT SXZEsJ/DI757yM1A6RHfpNocaCpJmOPwCPvozvsR8hs1DRxLoDiZJX+I3M61XKBMeyTE 91gQOraSY8bwhhCoFGNn1CSH6Ng6ESOTIByL0= Received: by 10.87.65.9 with SMTP id s9mr654627fgk.48.1267137842268; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from graffiti.localnet (ppp-94-66-161-209.home.otenet.gr [94.66.161.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm4795630fxm.9.2010.02.25.14.43.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:43:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: Theo Chatzimichos From: Theo Chatzimichos To: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:44:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910241542.17701.reavertm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3205605.jtzU0CQzUr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002260044.38261.tampakrap@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ca70a2d9-3c2f-4a8b-be51-ae50591b7a82 X-Archives-Hash: 27bad21d86c4e5caecb49f24b65b5620 --nextPart3205605.jtzU0CQzUr Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 22 January 2010 18:15:49 Ben de Groot wrote: > 2009/10/24 Maciej Mrozowski : > > Hi there! > >=20 > > Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking > > place 22 Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), > > having Gentoo GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead > > with splitting desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid > > bloat and provide desktop specific separation which should result in > > desktop subprofiles being actually practical. > > It's been proposed to: > >=20 > > - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features > > and settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using > > non-KDE and non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. > > Any other DE is free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if > > needed. > >=20 > > - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within > > 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This shou= ld > > in theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop > > specific packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile > > effectively 'out of the box' solution for those who need it. > >=20 > > If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this > > change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list. > >=20 > > Thanks > >=20 > > -- > > regards > > MM >=20 > Three months later... Why has this not been implemented yet? >=20 > Cheers, Just for the record, I will do this tomorrow. Thanks =2D-=20 Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap) Gentoo KDE Team --nextPart3205605.jtzU0CQzUr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkuG/VUACgkQjDdoMVfcAHhpvACgn5QQPFuvbnUcIldTy0eGSKiB 5PIAn25TQvyHk03lwQetfTUACDQlmvKt =YKv/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3205605.jtzU0CQzUr--