Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 21:44, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > My personal opinion is that whilst things like modular X are good for
> > developers, they are not so good for users - particularly gentoo users.
> 
> we provide meta packages (X/kde/gnome/etc...) for the split packages 
> so users can just emerge 1 package to get them all
> 
> on one machine i like to run kde so the meta packages are a godsend ... 
> yet on another machine, i only want k3b/kmail and nothing else so the 
> split packages too are a godsend :)

Very good point. 
What's best here is a matter of personal taste or individual
system requirements.

Gentoo's strength comes from respecting those user wishes.
If you stop doing that, you aren't better then all these 
Evil-Binary-Distros (TM) ;-P


cu
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