On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:08:07PM -0800, Joshua Saddler wrote: > > > On 3 March 2010 19:45, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > I don't believe we should selectively cripple one GUI toolkit with not > > > having proper printing support out of the box on a desktop profile, > > > while others do, just because maintainers are lazy. > > > > It is not something that is necessary for running a > > desktop system. > > Your logic is very thin here. By that same line of reasoning, neither are the > gtk or qt flags, since you don't need 'em if you're building, say, a *box > desktop. > > Printing is something I'd argue is part of a desktop environment. It's very > much a graphical activity, and that's what a desktop is. We've had the > Printing Guide in our Desktop Documentation Resources section for years for > that very reason. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=desktop >
Isn't the split of the desktop profile, into KDE and gnome profiles, whilst leaving a base Desktop profile, exactly meant for the purpose that if you're not building KDE/Gnome, then you don't need to set the qt flags, unless some application needs it, or you find that you'd prefer to have them set system-wide? -- Zeerak Waseem
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