Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > Hi there! > > Resulting from discussion during last Gentoo KDE team meeting taking place 22 > Oct 2009 at #gentoo-meetings (summary fill be available soon), having Gentoo > GNOME team representative, it's been decided to go ahead with splitting > desktop profile to DE-specific subprofiles, to avoid bloat and provide > desktop > specific separation which should result in desktop subprofiles being actually > practical. > It's been proposed to: > > - keep 'desktop' profile but strip it from any desktop specific features and > settings, making it default recommended choice for anyone using non-KDE and > non-GNOME desktop environment, yet avoiding USE flags bloat. Any other DE is > free to join and create own DE-specific subprofile if needed. > > - create 'KDE' (or 'kde') and 'GNOME' (or 'gnome') subprofiles within > 'desktop' profile and move any desktop specific things there. This should in > theory allow us to not add 'recommended' IUSE defaults to desktop specific > packages, but keep those settings in profile - making profile effectively > 'out > of the box' solution for those who need it. > > If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this > change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list. > > Thanks > >
I personally like this idea. At one time I used a bare profile and a huge USE line to keep unneeded things out. This would be a really nice solution. You got my vote on this one. Dale :-) :-)
