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 1N2Z6n-00035O-2C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:36:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5F7DE080B; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8E8E080B for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sapphire.localnet (atlnts.org [85.222.29.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6496750F for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:36:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Dawid =?utf-8?q?W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski?= Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:34:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910241542.17701.reavertm@gmail.com> <200910270108.30347.cla@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200910270134.55224.cla@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: aa4e5a1a-daac-400e-8276-1e66c55fa5ca X-Archives-Hash: d7343b7484249461f790c6e367fbafc3 On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:26:38 Zeerak Waseem wrote: > But instead of just giving the user the answer, wouldn't it be more > appropriate, as far as understanding useflags and their uses goes, to give > users lists of useflags and what they do. Ie a list of base use flags for > say, kde, and also what basic useflags to disable, and a suggestion to > read the descriptions of the useflags to add what's necessary. As the > handbook currently does. I think with the documentation, one should have > enough information to assess what useflags are desired for one's system. > And then I'd suggest looking at the packages and the need for various use > flags individually, if you want to. But the documentation provides basic > useflags for running your system. > But again, this is just my take on it :-) >=20 No. Handbook doesn't provide information on every useflag. For this you hav= e=20 use{.local.,.}desc in PORTDIR/profiles/. And again, if you missread my prev= ious=20 post - there's no way to standarize *every* useflag and tell user "flag foo= does=20 bar". It's developer who should decide on behalf of user what's the best=20 configuration. And user has always choice to disable some useflags and crea= te=20 his own configuration for his requirements. =2D-=20 Cheers Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski