On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:55:27 +0100, lee wrote: > > Firstly, things like Flash and Skype are not special cases, they are > > widely used and many of us have to use them, whether we like it or > > not. > > They are special cases. Flash never really worked, and when it does, > it's pretty much unusable because it's too crappy. Skype only kinda > works and is not usable due to total lack of privacy.
You can call those and other binary-only programs special cases as much as you like, and maybe they are for you. But for many people there is no real choice but to use them. > > Secondly, no one is forcing you to use anything? There is a > > no-multilib profile, > > There doesn't seem to be a desktop profile that isn't multilib. Probably for the reasons I've already suggested, but you don't have to use a desktop profile. > > and nothing to stop you creating a no-multilib version of your > > preferred desktop profile if you so wish (the desktop profiles are > > basically a different set of default USE flags). > > I wouldn't know how to do that. emerge --info with the desktop profile to get a list of USE flags, then set those same flags on the no-multilib profile. What's so hard? > In any case, the default is simply wrong. Of course it is, it's a default, it can't be right for everyone. That's why it is a default starting point, not an enforced setting. If you don't want to move away from the defaults, what are you using Gentoo? > > Multilib should be going away on due time. Until then you have two > > courses of action: complain about it or use a no-multilib profile > > with your preferred flags. Only one of those choices has any real > > benefit. > > There is no non-multilib profile one could use when they want a desktop > profile. Perhaps multilib goes away in 20 years or so, or never. That > doesn't help. However long it takes, the timescale will not be altered by one second by any amount of complaining in here. -- Neil Bothwick Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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