On Wednesday 21 December 2005 06:32, Paul wrote:
> "I. I. Ooisen" <ii001001@email-addr-hidden>, on Tue Dec 20, 2005 [08:56:49 AM]
said:
> > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 07:55, Noah Roberts wrote:
> > > On 12/19/05, I. I. Ooisen <ii001001@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > > is it because noteedit is a kde app and most of us are gnome
> > > > supporters?
> > >
> > > localhost mp3 # emerge -pv noteedit
> > >
> > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> > >
> > > Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
> [ genormous list of dependancies ]
>
> > > Total size of downloads: 31,312 kB
> > >
> > >
> > > I have to admit that is definately a point against it. Even with
> > > emerge I'm not that interested in adding all that crap to my
> > > system right now.
>
> ..
>
> > NOW SERIOUSLY:
> >
> > the way i see it packed under portage is a point against GENTOO,
> > not against NOTEEDIT. really!
> >
> > i didn't have to apt-get kappfinder in order to use noteedit or
> > anything like kdemultimedia (also kmid, or kmix, or arts, or
> > mpeglib, or kscd?!? -- GENTOO REALLY SCARES ME HERE... I HAD BETTER
> > OPINIONS ON IT!)
>
> Hi;
>
> In all fairness, that ebuild is probably going a little
> overboard, by being lazy. It actually depends on 'kdemultimedia',
> to get its kde thing going, which drags in most of that stuff.
> And then it ignores USE to force inclusion of arts, and also
> includes the optional tse3 lib.
> This is fairly anti-ethical to the Gentoo Way, and if
> I cared at all about noteedit, I would probably fix the ebuild
> and submit a bug report. (At the *very least*, arts should not be
> being forced here, and some of the other stuff like tse3 should
> probably depend on if midi is desired.)
>
> Paul
> set@email-addr-hidden
fair comment. in addition, from what i know, not even tse is *vital*,
even for some of the midi functionality.
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