-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQ+GDSAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCTMoQAJIWJp7nBoIkMPXzQODQvUlL bHYl28PmDTVjeSY3DPTq9Oji4A83bD2Y/g6IocDQNEVqwawsgFuT3i1rEAaSBsZg Idy1OMiRibEI84Jabn5YWQ6tXnm9baH7JhgwVfh9vD83H7746w0vdPMDQqIz02Cn vBza5ClBIr7slyxXNkp7jOCILHY4/LWJ4sNXdXHZkHVA+aOc0yZ/IOQH8q5FYiUa K6LPQfXwDsooUXHn6LDwd0iFuBjATZmsVnDLr0aJjm43eTxp/DxNsJS+lExwLCXI zjFnGGlEjhEiTZoOdIVg563jxjLnf/kbKdfkr0dYMoPZ4snoGKaIz3iRq9RqutuA iA03HuFU/hMAkpb6ZCiS7jWqER4iVzpRDg1eSgRYbE49sUZ5l7eRVKbnfVd3KDmG CR5qJBhJixwKXD50szRqHWdauNPZ77Ctz/GCLWB866SAAuOiKzn58g1gW7bTRLLP bfCHpLnQisr5u75vkBvANpjxfgvNkrnZYCxBDcoXqgEUbyAjqVhDLEwbH+xUnr6h NB40gzETGwPm6ypECbpUQC9FHigzew2/+Br0aydpiSYm1610+erJyuFK4sDhrxhF Yitpx/oR4cBfPTJOW5mMI3RzA68IeBXXsXqjEsJPhicZhMGmgvx4PeOAg5Ni2ZUc 3tqEGgpcVAMtEPLdH3PC =/qMW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
