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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:18:09
Message-Id: 201210300417.03311.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc by Mike Frysinger
1 On Monday 15 October 2012 13:45:22 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 15 October 2012 11:20:19 Zac Medico wrote:
3 > > On 10/14/2012 09:22 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > sounds like we should extend the profiles.desc file or profile
5 > > > structure to include a description so that people know the intention
6 > > > of each one. the only marker we had before was implicitly in the name
7 > > > (".../server" and ".../desktop").
8 > >
9 > > Maybe put a metadata.xml file in the profile directory. Then you can
10 > > list the description, maintainer, and anything else you want in there.
11 >
12 > SGTM. then we just update eselect to parse that if it's available.
13
14 https://bugs.gentoo.org/440220
15 -mike

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