Re: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

2009/10/24 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@gmail.com>:
> Hi there!
>
> 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:
>
> - 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.
>
> - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within
> 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should 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.
>
> If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this
> change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> regards
> MM
>

Three months later... Why has this not been implemented yet?

Cheers,
-- 
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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