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 1N2W53-0007cG-Qb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:22:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCB58E09EB; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0814E09EB for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so10369624ywh.32 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:22:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w7GQXyjxUOyiKGO6SUMZ7m/IrCIrP/iPIB3clzbwSgg=; b=BKQsBHlL6gnDwfEE6IxjDy0RWU4atzs87JVT74QiPz+HlyKrCbWd32239Iatv8qUGU SM2tg4mR8I9uHC1LP8Uw4ZPQuR1e3/GOTjU0fVnLOoPdBlylXeqP7AvTnuiLmI1SJeGn 7/T0+RGAZmf9ssAm9DP1Tp+ILqRe7l+WCmcbY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IM6o0ypQKhGnU7nD3WNmO1uY9KUHFMfk707oIYC9jU+u4fYWkuqzwebPVWcX6PWMoE n+o2e6EBH7POTd5+J2YfgqpNxqw712u+jACDvWIeWAzliCNu2iZYvGsUugbHa4oN2GwM 1UAo4YlmAdyWcji4YLShXlnpyb+2/oBaP/bC0= Received: by 10.150.172.1 with SMTP id u1mr11153837ybe.31.1256588536421; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-111.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm26920gxk.7.2009.10.26.13.21.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE604E4.2070709@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:21:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME References: <200910241542.17701.reavertm@gmail.com> <4AE582D0.7080405@allenjb.me.uk> <225000070910261252t16155c78s5461c1f13fff406d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <225000070910261252t16155c78s5461c1f13fff406d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: da269c8b-f2fb-4714-a724-72032c91500d X-Archives-Hash: 97e27745e8c6b369ed80c401619cc362 Alex Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 21:42, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > >> having to choose a profile, gives less time for the wavering user >> > > Why all the fuss? No-one said we're removing the plain "desktop" > profile, we're simply adding *more* options. > > If you want generic DE options pre-enabled, choose the desktop profile. > If you *know* you only need KDE as your DE, choose KDE, > If you *know* you only need GNOME as your DE, choose GNOME, > If you need both or can't decide, either choose Desktop and add the > USE flags yourself or use both profiles together. > > Beats enabling default USE flags without asking you :) > > +1. This is adding options not taking away. I like this idea since you can still do it the old way with no problems at all. Plus this will make my USE line shorter. It has to help a little at least. Dale :-) :-)