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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/features/64bit-native/package.use.mask contents redundancy
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:31:39
Message-Id: 4F3948D6.7000208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/features/64bit-native/package.use.mask contents redundancy by Sergei Trofimovich
1 On 02/13/2012 08:16 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
2 > Another alternative would be to skip double-inclusion of identical profiles at
3 > the portage level, but it sounds very fragile and counterintuitive.
4 >
5 > Maybe, a bit less fragile, than current state.
6
7 Either way is prone to unintended results, so it's better to fix the
8 root problem which is poor profile structuring. If we did skip the
9 double-inclusions automatically, then that would be a PMS change, and I
10 doubt that any of the PMS folks would be in favor of it.
11 --
12 Thanks,
13 Zac