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To: wolf31o2@g.o
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Subject: Re: Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:25:54 +0000
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:12:40 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
| On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:31 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > AFAICS there's no way to tell whether a profile is "inherit only" or
| > whether it's complete enough to be used by an end user. Would it
| > make sense to have an empty text file called "inherit-only" (for
| > example) within profiles which aren't usable?
| 
| I was always under the impression that all profiles should be usable.
| If that is not the case, then I 100% agree that there should be some
| way of marking a profile as unusable.

Well, you couldn't really sanely run a system with your profile symlink
pointing to 'base' or 'default-linux'.

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

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