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 1N2ZB7-0003h8-9k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3D7AE0A7E; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DEAE0A7E for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:43 +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 2693367479 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Dawid =?utf-8?q?W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:39:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910241542.17701.reavertm@gmail.com> <200910270134.55224.cla@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200910270134.55224.cla@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Linux 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: <200910270139.23327.cla@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ac425e66-d953-4752-8bea-ba2c043a5eb7 X-Archives-Hash: be16f9ef6949640e57b6e7d29627f9db On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:34:55 Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski wrote: > 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 usefla= gs > > 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 t= o. > > 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 > have use{.local.,.}desc in PORTDIR/profiles/. And again, if you missread > my previous post - there's no way to standarize *every* useflag and tell > user "flag foo does bar". It's developer who should decide on behalf of > user what's the best configuration. And user has always choice to disable > some useflags and create his own configuration for his requirements. >=20 s@best configuration@best minimal configuration@ =2D-=20 Cheers Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski