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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Subject: Re: Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:13:38 +0000
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:26:17 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
wrote:
| # ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/base /etc/make.profile
| # emerge -p system
| 
| These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
| 
| !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
| !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

Indeed. So... Can anyone think of a better name than "inherit-only"? Can
anyone think of a good way of indicating this other than by an empty
file? Would it be reasonable for me to file a bug asking that at some
point in the future portage detects the existence of said file and
displays a better message instead?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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