I have seen an increasing number of package is setting "gnome-shell" local USEs to enable optional gnome-shell support In the case of "gnome" profile users, I think we would want to get that enabled by default. What do you think?
I'm not sure if global makes sense or not (as opposed to e.g IUSE default or via package.use of gnome profile target). Though when looking at the usages, it seems that most are about installing some gnome-shell theme in x11-themes/ packages, for whose benefit it seems appropriate to enable globally to get the gnome-shell theme on gnome profiles. OTOH, I'm a bit weary of it for a few of the other uses, where it's for compiling and installing a search provider, e.g gnome-terminal. I think it makes sense, just in this specific case the search provider has been a bit crashy in the past, though it has more fixes in 3.24, plus I don't think the crashes actually have any other effect than an entry and core dump to coredumpctl and the specific search provider stopping to work. My vote would be a slightly hesitant "Yes, lets enable it globally for gnome target"
then, do we enable it finally? :)
I think lets just go for it, though the only consumers I find with a naive grep are: gnome-base/gnome-light - This should remain IUSE defaulted as well x11-terms/gnome-terminal - This is the main beneficiary here x11-themes/arc-theme - makes sense to go via profile x11-themes/vertex-theme - same x11-themes/zuki-themes - same Given that the USE flag name is gnome-shell with "gnome" in there, I don't see a big problem in just putting it in make.defaults then, though some purists might say it belongs to a list of package.use as it's not a global USE flag, but easy to miss adding new entries to gnome profiles package.use then.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1c4989cb3526fcde2cd0ea334e449b6de51cacf8 commit 1c4989cb3526fcde2cd0ea334e449b6de51cacf8 Author: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-10-08 12:52:41 +0000 Commit: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-08 12:57:43 +0000 profiles/targets/desktop/gnome: Enable gnome-shell by default As most users of this profile will expect a full GNOME desktop experience, and gnome-shell is a core component for it. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614608 Thanks-to: Mart Raudsepp Signed-off-by: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/make.defaults | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
