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 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGbkF-0007M8-K5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:33:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l72EWh2P017871; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:32:43 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l72EUlRg015580 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:30:48 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so1087761pye for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:30:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gigDQl9EJ6m/pf2t3CfPppOj2ZBpT7+s2KIO2hlgxH0RXi78r6josl6tAZdyN73fiRtJf93N4MpImcuue1QfT0VqVR0gI7luSFWJsFRjSpv7VAwAjTBruSnBHGqHZuz4yNMoCjkU6tM/dbYbLmpT7TU5J3+tt2fp9lViWFPTGHc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fzEvVn5ZyFAbIquC9rznD5BsA2E/IMosjl5/nLNV3X81FxCTcRHifIf5j/UDNuJ62ikultYWudrBqr1/BKP+1cqqFUkyDrO/wJniwRRwbjAN2vzJqDgf3ilDPYF3kjdthsWZPvjTPx5JTmlfOpfeaYRMxgoqBSZfKehGJuWnvJ4= Received: by 10.65.233.16 with SMTP id k16mr3281751qbr.1186065047084; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.251.15 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8cd1ed20708020730i2366798xab3fa83c25d391e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:30:47 +1200 From: "Kent Fredric" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] default desktop profile In-Reply-To: <46B1A39C.2010406@schwier.cc> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B1A39C.2010406@schwier.cc> X-Archives-Salt: 1fa77e97-ebc6-4c38-89a3-8c3f1ac2e157 X-Archives-Hash: cb5c318f9fcb6e3f562147b14006bc27 On 8/2/07, Martin Schwier wrote: > Hello developers, > > today I posted a bug (187475) about a minor issue about the useflag > libnotify not beeing in the default desktop profile. Me was told that > this sould be discussed on gentoo-dev. I can't really understand why > such a minor issue have to be discussed among all developers as there > are certainly much more importand things to do. > > Beeing a user I have the feeling that bugs concerning such minor issues > aren't welcome among the gentoo developers. I consider it important for > gentoo to regard such details too achieve a more polished gnome desktop > experience by default as we have now. > > To come to the bug, I'll comment Jakub Moc's last comment: > > > As said above - bloating default profiles even more goes to gentoo-dev mailing > > list, so that people could comment. I for one am already annoyed enough by the > > nonsense being added there, such as USE=kerberos or USE=ldap. > > I agree that there is too much enabled by default, but other things are > missing. I personally need kerberos and ldap but that shouldn't be the > default for most singel-user desktop installations. > > So, these are my proposed changes for the default desktop profile: > > +bash-completion > +bluetooth Most Probably dont have/want bluetooth. I know at most 1 linux users who would use it. > +ffmpeg (totem isn't much without it) > +libnotify (gives very nice popup notifications in many programs instead > of an annoying, workflow interrupting dialog box with an OK button) > +ppds (everyone has a printer, and this is needed to configure it > without further investigations. cups is already in) No, not everyone has a printer :P > +startup-notification > -fortran (not 1% of the desktop users need fortran and it speeds up > the compile) > -kerberos > -ldap I just turned these off myself. Why?,, i like compiling for hours with emerge --newuse ;) The millions of lines of text make me feel geeky ;) ( lol ) > I'm curious about your comments, > > -- > Martin Schwier > Gentoo user ;) > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Kent ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| print "enNOSPicAMreil kdrtf@gma.com"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}' -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list