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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:21:09
Message-Id: 507C29B3.4000100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc by Mike Frysinger
1 On 10/14/2012 09:22 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > sounds like we should extend the profiles.desc file or profile structure to
3 > include a description so that people know the intention of each one. the only
4 > marker we had before was implicitly in the name (".../server" and
5 > ".../desktop").
6
7 Maybe put a metadata.xml file in the profile directory. Then you can
8 list the description, maintainer, and anything else you want in there.
9 --
10 Thanks,
11 Zac

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