Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

>> Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you?
>
> x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release
> x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited (tweaked) for
> that kind of usage.

[...]

Nice.. thanks
I see I already have most of use flags in the desktop, and already
have apache and mysql too.. so looks like I'm good to go but for
changing the symlink.

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:52:33 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you?
> >
> > x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release
> > x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited
> > (tweaked) for that kind of usage.
>
> [...]
>
> Nice.. thanks
> I see I already have most of use flags in the desktop, and already
> have apache and mysql too.. so looks like I'm good to go but for
> changing the symlink.

A useful side-effect showed up with profiles in the last few days.
Openoffice.org integration with KDE is broken - sometimes it doesn't build,
sometimes it doesn't run and as the devs try out new patches it actually
sometimes works :-)

As a user, you want to be insulated from this nonsense of stuff breaking
mysteriously. So appropriate masks go into profiles, where you simply cannot
enable a certain USE flag for a specific package if it will not work.

This particular case went into base/ so every profile benefited. But if it
affected just say Intel, then the current x86 and amd64 profiles desktop could
have been updated and you would benefit. Using an ultra-minimal (or not
supported anymore) profile, you wouldn't.

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:52:33 Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you?
>>>>
>>> x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release
>>> x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited
>>> (tweaked) for that kind of usage.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Nice.. thanks
>> I see I already have most of use flags in the desktop, and already
>> have apache and mysql too.. so looks like I'm good to go but for
>> changing the symlink.
>>
>
> A useful side-effect showed up with profiles in the last few days.
> Openoffice.org integration with KDE is broken - sometimes it doesn't build,
> sometimes it doesn't run and as the devs try out new patches it actually
> sometimes works :-)
>
>

So this is why OOo won't compile all of a sudden. May have to put -kde
in package.use then. See if that helps.

Thanks Alan.

Dale

:-) :-)

P. S. Should I report the failure or do they already know about this?

On Thursday 29 October 2009 00:03:36 Dale wrote:

> So this is why OOo won't compile all of a sudden. May have to put -kde
> in package.use then. See if that helps.
>
> Thanks Alan.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
> P. S. Should I report the failure or do they already know about this?

The bug report shows it's been changed back and forth several times recently.
So yeah, the devs know about it :-)


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