Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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> On 4 March 2010 21:01, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Removing the cups USE flag still doesn't fix the problem I pointed out in
>> another reply.  If you unpack the tarball and set the USE line as you
>> should, the circular dependency is still there.  Correct?  So nothing is
>> "fixed" by doing this.
>>      
> What it fixes is (1) the circular dependency that people run into on a
> fresh install and the default desktop profile, and (2) the default
> dependency on cups that many users do not need.
>
> What it does not fix is the case of users who enable both cairo and
> cups useflags on a system where neither gtk+ nor cups is present
> yet. But this issue can be discussed separately from whether cups
> should be enabled in profiles.
>
> Cheers,
>    

In the other post, I explained how this will not fix this at all.  As 
mentioned, untar the tarball, copy the make.conf and world file over 
then start the install.  Guess what, the circular dependency is right 
there.  If I had to reinstall Gentoo from scratch, because of say a hard 
drive failure, that is what I would do.  If a person follows the 
documentation and enables the USE flags they need, same thing.  It's not 
like cups is a hidden feature.  Anyone even familiar with Linux a little 
bit knows what cups is.

As I have learned a long time ago, you enable the USE flags as soon as 
possible.  If you don't, you end up recompiling a lot of packages just 
to enable them later.

Dale

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