On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 21:06:33 -0500 Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 02/02/2017 09:00 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: > > > > Consider: a new user, coming from Ubuntu or Fedora or Windows, > > starts building their system. They start installing packages they > > want, only to find that half of the package isn't there because no > > USE flags were enabled. They have to enable these flags for almost > > every package they want because there's no defaults, you must > > manually specify anything that's not a direct dependency or forced > > by profile. > > Desktop profile!!!!!!!!!! We have a desktop profile!!! Why is the base > profile a better location for new-user-with-a-desktop defaults than > the **desktop** profile? > > I'm going crazy. I give up. > There are people who run servers on Gentoo, and don't particularly want minimalism, then want a normal Linux system level of functionality (ie upstream and/or sane defaults) without having to add dozens of USE flags to random packages throughout the system.
