On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:28 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 02/02/2017 04:05 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> The problem is the new user experience. When somebody is new to >> Gentoo and not super-knowledgeable the first thing they're going to do >> is set up a desktop. Now, they might not call it a desktop. They >> might not even run X11 on it. But, they're basically falling into >> that desktop user experience where whatever they do install "just >> works" and is feature-complete. > > Nobody give a damn about the > gentoo noob; that's why it is gentoo policy not to have an installer. >
No such policy exists, as far as I'm aware. If one does could you cite it so that we can strike it down? As far as I'm aware there is no Gentoo policy about hosting any particular kind of software, as long as we can legally host it. > I just do not see your 'either or scenario' as the only possibility. Then let me clarify that I wasn't proposing anything as an exclusive option. I merely think that it makes more sense to specify default package-specific USE flags in the packages and not in the profiles. As I posted earlier I'm open to better ways of doing that. > All I really need is a minimized (a least or very low set of > packages) profile that is not so concerned with most of the upstream > projects and the noise found therein. Sure, and that was basically how I suggested going about it. -- Rich
