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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults
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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
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On 02/02/2017 09:00 PM, Sam Jorna wrote:
>
> Consider: a new user, coming from Ubuntu or Fedora or Windows, starts 
> building their system. They start installing packages they want, only to 
> find that half of the package isn't there because no USE flags were 
> enabled. They have to enable these flags for almost every package they 
> want because there's no defaults, you must manually specify anything 
> that's not a direct dependency or forced by profile.

Desktop profile!!!!!!!!!! We have a desktop profile!!! Why is the base
profile a better location for new-user-with-a-desktop defaults than the
**desktop** profile?

I'm going crazy. I give up.