From: "Dawid Węgliński" <cla@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:56:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003040756.48943.cla@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e117dbb91003031351q3f539e12r2be1281a2d0debc3@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 22:51:10 Ben de Groot wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 19:45, Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I don't believe we should selectively cripple one GUI toolkit with not
> > having proper printing support out of the box on a desktop profile,
> > while others do, just because maintainers are lazy.
>
> I'm not talking about selectively disabling cups. My proposal is
> to no longer enable the cups useflag in the base profile. I don't
> think cups should be part of the base profile, and as a result
> cascading to the desktop profile. And a lot of people seem to
> agree. Users can always enable that functionality when they
> need it. It is not something that is necessary for running a
> desktop system.
>
> Cheers,
How is that going to fix circular dependency problem? What will you do if every
user add cups to USE in make.conf? Say "we don't support cups turned on by
default"? I hope no. Removing this flag from profile will not fix any problem but
hide it.
--
Cheers
Dawid Węgliński
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 21:24 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps Ben de Groot
2010-03-01 21:40 ` Zac Medico
2010-03-03 18:45 ` Mart Raudsepp
2010-03-03 18:54 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-03-03 22:02 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-03 21:51 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-03 23:18 ` Nathan Zachary
2010-03-04 1:53 ` Dale
2010-03-04 1:57 ` Nathan Zachary
2010-03-04 2:17 ` Dale
2010-03-04 2:24 ` Nathan Zachary
2010-03-04 2:41 ` Dale
2010-03-04 3:07 ` Richard Freeman
2010-03-04 3:19 ` Dale
2010-03-04 12:30 ` Markus Oehme
2010-03-05 16:12 ` Roy Bamford
2010-03-05 18:03 ` Dawid Węgliński
2010-03-05 18:38 ` Pacho Ramos
2010-03-05 20:11 ` Dale
2010-03-06 18:33 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-03-04 6:56 ` Dawid Węgliński [this message]
2010-03-04 7:08 ` Joshua Saddler
2010-03-04 7:27 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-04 12:24 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-04 12:28 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-04 17:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2010-03-04 17:23 ` Jeremy Olexa
2010-03-04 17:53 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-04 23:56 ` Vincent Launchbury
2010-03-05 0:07 ` Dale
2010-03-05 0:32 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-07 5:59 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-03-04 20:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dale
2010-03-04 21:46 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2010-03-04 22:11 ` Dale
2010-03-04 22:17 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-04 22:34 ` Dale
2010-03-04 23:03 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-04 23:27 ` Dale
2010-03-04 23:39 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-05 0:00 ` Dale
2010-03-05 1:57 ` Patrick Nagel
2010-03-05 2:37 ` Richard Freeman
2010-03-05 3:02 ` Dale
2010-03-05 3:18 ` Graham Murray
2010-03-05 4:19 ` Dale
2010-03-05 4:57 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-05 13:06 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-06 12:24 ` Richard Freeman
2010-03-06 15:59 ` Zac Medico
2010-03-05 2:53 ` Dale
2010-03-04 11:50 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-04 17:02 ` Mart Raudsepp
2010-03-04 14:01 ` Luca Barbato
2010-03-01 21:53 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2010-03-01 22:06 ` Samuli Suominen
2010-03-02 2:13 ` Sylvain Alain
2010-03-01 22:09 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2010-03-02 5:53 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-03-02 7:29 ` Petteri Räty
2010-03-02 7:55 ` Markos Chandras
2010-03-05 20:51 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2010-03-05 21:06 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-06 9:11 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-03-06 11:32 ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-06 17:05 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-03-06 17:22 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2010-04-07 22:37 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-04-07 22:43 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-04-07 22:58 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-07 23:44 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-03-06 9:17 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-07 23:13 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-04-07 23:31 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-03-06 10:26 ` Pacho Ramos
2010-04-07 23:14 ` Enrico Weigelt
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