+1 for disabling it by default, long as it's done with care,
because it pretty hard for a newbie to understand what the hell is going on on
his first installation and a lot of people use the desktop profile since it's
one of the best way to install Gentoo for the first time.
Sylvain
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:06:10 +0200
> From: ssuomi...@gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve
> circular deps
>
> On 03/01/2010 11:24 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
> > For some reason beyond my understanding, we have the cups useflag
> > enabled by default in profiles. This has started to generate circular
> > dependencies, at least for desktop profile users (gtk -> cups ->
> > poppler -> gtk). I propose we no longer enable the cups useflag.
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> +1 for disabling it by default, long as it's done with care
>
> for example, see how it will change the pkgs using USE cups, some might
> need a + default flag or they might get defaulted to "lpr"
>
> (and that is really only a example)
>
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