On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:45 AM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 08/08/2013 08:21 AM, Duncan wrote: >> >> None-the-less, I do understand the problem of a gentoo project supporting >> an option no devs on the project are actually interested in running. > > I do not. If that is the policy, then the project is doing something wrong. >
Feel free to join it and do something right then. :) I don't know what it was costing them to support USE=-semantic-desktop. Their logic for no longer providing the option was that the effects of the option were now configurable in the control panel. Granted, you'd still end up pulling in the deps, but they wouldn't actually do anything. I like being able to use kdepim (or would if it didn't prompt me to re-authenticate with Google two factor on every login), so this is an improvement. I could see why others might want the flag to remain. If it works and somebody is willing to proxy-maintain the necessary elements to support it, they should be allowed to do so unless it causes some other problem. Rich
