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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should 'imlib' USE flag be on by default in	x86
From:       Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= <tester () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2008-07-25 19:27:47
Message-ID: 1217014068.10403.39.camel () TesterTop3 ! tester ! ca
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On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:00 -0400, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> I've run into it a few times now that fluxbox users running Gentoo
> wonder why they can't get icons to work in the fluxbox menus.  The
> short answer is that 'imlib' is off by default in many profiles,
> including default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop and
> default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop
> 
> I know that I could turn it on by default for fluxbox only using EAPI-1,
> but since it's a global USE flag, the profiles may be a better place.
> 
> I think imlib is something most desktop users would want, since it lets
> them see all those pretty graphics.  Comments?  Concerns?

imlib is unmaintained/deprecated. So I don't think it makes sense to
push it by default to users using GNOME/KDE at least (because they have
better image loading libraries).

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer



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