On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:04:17 +0000 (UTC), Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Ben de Groot posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:28:24 +0100 as excerpted: > >> On 4 March 2010 08:08, Joshua Saddler <nightmo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Your logic is very thin here. By that same line of reasoning, neither >>> are the gtk or qt flags, since you don't need 'em if you're building, >>> say, a *box desktop. >> >> Toolkits are more directly useful to a desktop than printing. >> >>> Printing is something I'd argue is part of a desktop environment. >> >> And I'd argue it isn't necessarily so. > > Indeed. Some (many?) of us use printing uncommonly enough that it's > cheaper to put it on a thumb drive and take it to a printer than buy a > printer -- and pay for another $10-30 ink cartridge every time we want to > print something, because the last one dried up between uses. (I keep > thinking I'll buy a laser printer, but never seem to get around to doing
> the research on best supported, etc, and always seem to have other things > to spend the money on. Besides, the tech keeps getting better, so a bit > of delay isn't hurting... which I've been saying for years now. How many > are in a similar position?) Similarly, I have never *owned* a printer because work or school always has had free printing. So, my opinion is that the Gentoo default of USE=cups in desktop profiles is bogus for *my* Gentoo desktops. But, I'm not a desktop profile consumer anyway because they are sub-optimal, imo. ;) -Jeremy
