On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 05:53 +0000, Steve Long wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >> branding: Enable Gentoo specific branding > >> [questionable, as used for splashes/shortcuts/artwork] > > > > Well, my personal opinion here is that we should enable this by default > > on *at least* the desktop profiles, as providing sensible defaults and > > branding isn't outside the scope of the project. We still stay as close > > to upstream as possible with this stuff and only use it for branding or > > optional Gentoo-specific minor config changes. Also, it can still be > > disabled for people who want everything as upstream intended. > > > I have no objection to it being flagged on by default in desktop profiles, > but "Gentoo-specific minor config changes" concerns me, since I take it as > given that installing for a specific distro implies config changes to work > with that distro, and not having those because I have turned branding off > sounds bad for me as a user and seems a confusion of purpose. (It could > lead to more optional config changes bundled in future which wouldn't be > apparent without knowledge of the ebuild.)
Well, by this I meant something like bug #170059 which would mean changing the default home page (minor config change) to something Gentoo-specific. Not all config changes are for required functionality. Sorry, I had assumed that people on this list would be technical and able to realize this without it being explicitly spelled-out. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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