On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just wondering if we're jumping the gun a little bit on > IUSE="gui".. yes it'll be nice to have one flag that "just works" > for anyone not caring about the details, but it'll also mean > propagating a slew of REQUIRED_USE=" {X,wayland,gtk,qt4,qt5}? ( gui > )" entries and a lot of extra use-defaults which may or may not > cleanup the sub-profiles of desktop/ ....
A completely valid concern. Of course, there is no requirement that all this stuff happen overnight. > Also, I believe we need to have the conversation about the pros and > cons of IUSE=gui here before the council meeting, yes? You can read my original post to -project: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/4776 I did start it out with my reservation that this probably wouldn't come to a vote. However, I did want to at least toss out a specific proposal so that we have something to throw darts at, vs just going around the room saying "sounds like something that might need some attention." This is of course an opportunity to have that conversation, but I recognize that we're starting pretty late considering the timing of the meeting. I didn't really intend to actually push for a vote on this. Most likely we'll express thoughts both pro and con, and then take it back to the lists and maybe try to finalize something next month. My sense is that this has been going on for a long time though and we're seeing problems over and over. I agree that wayland is still a bit off in the future, but I can see it coming up again there. In the meantime both qt and gtk have run into this. I don't want to do something just to do something, but it seems like my proposal is along the lines of what most have been talking about. -- Rich
