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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve
 circular deps
From: Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org>
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On Sex, 2010-03-05 at 19:03 +0100, Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 17:12:23 Roy Bamford wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > That's not a new install as per the handbook. Neither are you a new
> > user as you have a premade make.conf and world file and some experien=
ce
> > with Gentoo.
> >=20
> > Put yourself in the place of a brand new Gentoo user doing his/her
> > first install.
> >=20
> > It needs to just work out of the box, one way or another, without
> > forums posts or calls for help in #gentoo about circular dependences.
> > That's not just cups - thats all circular dependencies.
>=20
> Brand new gentoo user goes throu handbook -> reads "set up USE variable=
s in=20
> make.conf" and does it according to his/her needs following use.*.desc.=
 If=20
> gentoo was new to me i *would* enter cups as i use printers often at wo=
rk.
>=20

+1

Most people trying Gentoo already had some history with other Linux
distros. So, I'm sure they will recognize the cups USE flag when they
see it. Most everyone I know also have a printer (some with a pile of
dust on it) so I think most of people will enable that USE flag anyway.
--=20
Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX
Gentoo Embedded/OMAP850 Developer
Linwizard Developer
http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix
http://miknix.homelinux.com