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 1Nn4zm-0005nP-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:57:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29E0FE0C14; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744C0E0ADB for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:56:56 +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 DB9EB1B405C for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:56:55 +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] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:56:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <1267641936.26170.5.camel@localhost> 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: <201003040756.48943.cla@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: af868949-97ed-46a2-aea7-b1dd6d39fd0c X-Archives-Hash: 1ce7f3a2e27cc32616bab2a0e59a3454 On Wednesday 03 March 2010 22:51:10 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 3 March 2010 19:45, Mart Raudsepp 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Cheers, How is that going to fix circular dependency problem? What will you do if e= very=20 user add cups to USE in make.conf? Say "we don't support cups turned on by= =20 default"? I hope no. Removing this flag from profile will not fix any probl= em but=20 hide it. =2D-=20 Cheers Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski