From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E87Xy-0000G8-JQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:36:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7P2V3ob000529; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:31:03 GMT Received: from kitos-powerbook-g4-17.local (cpe-24-27-15-174.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.15.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7P2T8XB022610; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:29:09 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kitos-powerbook-g4-17.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0CE58432; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:30:14 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v737) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <28B2A791-A149-4B58-86D8-8DD349D081E5@gentoo.org> Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-core@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kito Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:30:13 -0500 To: Brian Harring X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.737) X-Archives-Salt: 84ea2920-aa83-4cc4-bc71-bb65c2174287 X-Archives-Hash: 6a1589af60b2637cb9a4d4a78b37c5d1 On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Brian Harring wrote: > Hola all. > [...] > > So, fex, the following flags are rather desktop specific- > alsa > arts > avi > bitmap-fonts > cups > eds > emboss (why the hell is "European Molecular Biology Open Software > Suite" > a profile default? Seems extremely specialized) > encode > fortran > foomaticdb > gnome > gstreamer > gtk > gtk2 > imlib > kde > mad > mikmod > motif > mp3 > mpeg > ogg > oggvorbis > oss > png > qt > quicktime > sdl > spell > truetype > truetype-fonts > type1-fonts > vorbis > xml2 > xmms > When I did my first Gentoo install in the 1.4ish era, I was pretty shocked to see roughly this same insane list. I quickly learned about the -* trick, as the main thing that brought me to this distro was the minimalist factor. As you pointed out, -* is pretty ugly as it leaves the user with the task of recreating a sane default use list. [...] > > So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades for what they seem to be made for. --Kito > > My slightly flamey 2 cents > ~harring -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list