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It is wrong to make it impossible to use the default browser
(firefox) for targets using mixin/regular-lxqt given the
caveat with setting a variable to X, then to Y, then to X
again through make targets (see e.g. bootloader feature's
README).
mixin/regular-desktop can be used in non-x86 builds
where dualboot situation tends to be more rare;
let's keep this installer feature (tweaking installer
to pick up "other" filesystems) to regular.mk.
I decided to switch lightdm greeter from gtk to slick,
while adding the default user created to xgrp group
(to facilitate them access to DRI device nodes)
and turning off MATE's desire to spend extra resources
on bells and whistles though compositing window manager.
The reason for all of them is simple: a modern webkit-based browser.
The particular justification for each is:
- lxqt: Qupzilla is officially deprecated in favour of Falkon;
- kde4: Rekonq simply doesn't cut the mustard;
- kde5: Firefox is fine but there's more suitable one.
This will solve the sound problems when using regulars:
- The sound when the computer is restarted is set to 0
- Some applications do not know how to work directly with ALSA,
apulse allows you to solve this problem partially.
Using feature +pulse will override use of +alsa feature.
mixin/e2k-desktop was asking for separation from its day zero,
and the rest just came in naturally (the temporary patch to
add lxqt and mate looked awfully with all the duplication in).
These have appeared in desktop.mk, regular.mk, vm.mk
over time, and there are two problems around.
The minor one is that mixins have been introduced as
handy reusable bits close in context of their use;
this practically means that they fall under the same
class restrictions as their parent targets, that is
a mixin coming from regular.mk will only be available
for "distro" IMAGE_CLASS, and so on.
The major one is probably the worst design flaw in m-p:
building images from ground up, where ground is a valid
standalone buildable target as well.
Life has shown that we rather want to build up images
the other way around, choosing what essentials go in first
and then fitting the fine details along with the packaging.
The first sign of this difference appeared with ARMv7 Simply:
we had a well-built configuration aiming for x86 ISO, still
we needed roughly the same app/environment configuration
put into armh disk image.
Those platforms were different enough that we didn't actually
plan shipping *lots* of distributions but the problem was clear,
and it was much alike to the one that sprang m-p to life in the
first place (when we had a range of "common" distros and needed
to create and maintain a set of "school" ones that mostly had
similar or even identical difference to their respective base
ones -- and we couldn't do something like conf.d/p8.mk does now).
So mixins are going to become the softer way to turn m-p's
target configuration chain upside down to considerable extent:
build up what you're going to mix into the various deliverables,
and make it as portable across image classes, hardware platforms,
repository branches as feasible so that total maintenance effort
needed goes down or at least doesn't spike too bad.
And here's the first strike at that.
