Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Zeerak Waseem
But instead of just giving the user the answer, wouldn't it be more appropriate, as far as understanding useflags and their uses goes, to give users lists of useflags and what they do. Ie a list of base use flags for say, kde, and also what basic useflags to disable, and a suggestion to rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Zeerak Waseem
When it all comes down, I just fail to see how the handbook doesn't provide the pointers. I've always been about getting my system up and running, and then learn whatever needs learning, this means that whilst I didn't have more than a basic knowledge and understanding of useflags when inst

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Having recently installed gentoo, I can see hwo it could get confusing with DE specific profiles. Especially as a number of users that are new to linux might very well have no idea what DE they're going to use. And the same can be said for users who decided to run ubuntu "to try linux" and