On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:02:48 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> We might be talking past each other. Sane but minimal is the target. > > Bottom line is that the question isn't whether a minimal system should > have CUPS installed (that would be an argument for putting it in > @system - ugh!). The question is whether a minimal/base system should > have the cups USE-flag enabled for packages that actually use it. > > And cups is just an example - maybe not a good one. I just want to > make sure we're not just dropping flags left and right that everybody > and their uncle will either re-enable, or won't notice them being > removed anyway. I understand that enabling flags only affects packages if they’re installed. I’m just saying that, in my opinion, sane-but-minimal should have CUPS disabled because there are plenty of computers that would want LibreOffice and/or Chromium installed but not have a printer. They need not be servers if the target is simply sane-but-minimal. Chris
