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 -- regards MM
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