Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
Hi there!
Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking place 22
Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), having Gentoo
GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead with splitting
desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid bloat and provide desktop
specific separation which should result in desktop subprofiles being actually
practical.
It's been proposed to:
- keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features and
settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using non-KDE and
non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. Any other DE is
free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if needed.
Hi,
Just so it is clear and there aren't any questions in the future. The
XFCE team maintains a set of recommended global use flags in our docs[1]
(maintained by Josh (nightmorph)). So, whatever direction this ends up,
xfce will not be going down that same road.
Additionally, One cool thing about Gentoo is that you *can* have more
than one DE installed. We don't have things like KGentoo =P I hope this
profile thing doesn't make it harder for end users to use GNOME and KDE
at the same time.
-Jeremy
[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml
- create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within
'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should in
theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop specific
packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile effectively 'out
of the box' solution for those who need it.
If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this
change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list.
Thanks
