Re: [gentoo-dev] ironing out release tarballs

[Zac Medico]

On 10/15/2015 01:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>> What's probably desired is to create a stage3 profile which adds
>> whatever extra stuff you want to @system, and to use the stage3 profile
>> for to build stage3. After the stage3 is built, catalyst could set some
>> other profile if we don't want users to have the stage3 profile by default.
>
> Unless we seed @selected with the extra stuff, it will get removed the
> first time the user runs --depclean, which probably isn't what we
> want.
>
> I'm fine with going the multi-profile route, but it seems to me that
> we still need some kind of initial @selected set.
>
> Basically the goal here is to give the user a bunch of useful stuff by
> default (specified in some way in the profile), but make it easy for
> the user to remove it if they wish.
>
> A side goal is to do this without adding 14 more profiles, because we
> don't have mixins.
>

Given the goals, having catalyst seed /var/lib/portage/world seems
pretty reasonable to me.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac