El dom, 06-05-2012 a las 07:33 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think even heavyweight DE/WM usually needs ldap...
> >
> 
> Tend to agree.  I don't think we want to create a new profile every
> time we want to change one of the flags.
> 
> Some other questionable ones:
> emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
> firefox - probably OK for what it does now, but not everybody uses it
> xulrunner - not even used now
> 
> There will always be some level of variation if you are looking at
> single flags.  What matters isn't coming up with profiles that exactly
> match all of our users, but rather ones that are good for 80+% of
> them.
> 
> As far as ldap goes, if we wanted an "enterprise desktop" profile that
> might be a good fit for such a configuration.  I agree that -ldap
> isn't really a lightweight desktop so much as a normal one.  If you
> really wanted "lightweight" then you'd probably not be running desktop
> at all, or the regular desktop vs kde/gnome.

Maybe "desktop" should be more lightweight oriented and for people (like
me) wanting more, use gnome/kde instead (or create xfce/lxde... if they
need other flags...)
> 
> The bottom line is that we don't need 47 different profile targets -
> there will always be a "use" for 1 more.  That's why we all run Gentoo
> - we aren't bound by the decisions made for us by the package
> maintainers.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 


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