Steven J Long wrote:
> Zac Medico wrote:
> 
>> The specification is really the most important part, and you have to
>> give the -dev community an opportunity to participate in refining
>> the spec (via RFC email, GLEP, or whatnot).
>>
>> It seems like this idea will probably serve for bug 179800, which is
>> about allowing eclasses to register phase hooks:
>>
>>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179800
>>
> Hmm given that this relies on profile.bashrc, in specification terms one
> would have to ensure that http://bugs.gentoo.org/202631 (which was recently
> raised in #-council) were resolved. The sunrise people raised being able to
> tweak bashrc per-overlay in #-portage recently, and the phase hooks were
> also raised by javaJake wrt having directory-based hooks.

For the overlay people, it seems like we need something that's a
little different from the existing profile support, since profile's
are user-selectable and it seems like you want something that's
global/mandatory at the repository level. For example, it could be
located at profiles/profile.bashrc, similar to
profiles.package.mask, which is global/mandatory rather than being
part of a specific user-selectable profile.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac