On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Head <ch...@chead.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:17:26 -0500 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Oh, and keep in mind that flags really only have an effect if the >> corresponding packages are actually installed. For example, the cups >> flag doesn't really have an effect unless you install apps that do >> printing, so it seems pretty safe to leave in a minimal profile (would >> you really want to install libreoffice, chromium, or foomatic and not >> have cups support?). > > Really? Yes, I can see plenty of cases where I’d want LO or Chromium > but with USE=-cups, because there’s no printer anywhere in sight. Why > should that mean I don’t want an office suite or a web browser? > Probably not so much foomatic (though maybe there are other printing > frameworks than CUPS that people might use?), but LO and Chromium > absolutely.
Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with -cups, but the whole point is to target the TYPICAL user. And the context here is servers - how many servers would have chromium installed with -cups? If anything I'd expect more servers to have CUPS installed than chromium in the first place. Rich
