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On 01/17/2013 08:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Head <ch...@chead.ca>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman
>> <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Sorry, I thought the point was to make the base profile “sane
>> but minimal”, not to make it server-specific. In that case
>> USE=cups might make sense.
> 
> We might be talking past each other.  Sane but minimal is the
> target.
> 
> Bottom line is that the question isn't whether a minimal system
> should have CUPS installed (that would be an argument for putting
> it in @system - ugh!).  The question is whether a minimal/base
> system should have the cups USE-flag enabled for packages that
> actually use it.
> 
> And cups is just an example - maybe not a good one.  I just want
> to make sure we're not just dropping flags left and right that
> everybody and their uncle will either re-enable, or won't notice
> them being removed anyway.
> 
> Rich
> 
If you want to make the base profile the "sane minimal" one, dropping
flags is the right way to go. And cups does not belong to such a
profile. Minimal should be ehh minimal and other profiles should build
on top of it. Let the other profiles enable the flags they need.

- -- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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