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On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:13:20PM +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:52 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: |
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> > Hello |
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> > I have managed to split the desktop profile to gnome and kde submenus. The |
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> > result can be found in kde-crazy overlay (not in layman) [1] |
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> I think this whole approach of adding yet more subprofiles is highly |
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> suboptimal. You are wanting to add at least 28 more subprofiles (the |
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> number would reach the 80s if including hardened/mips, etc), whereas we |
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> just had a sort-of discussion on how we have too many of them already at |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_be393426980d12f341cabccfe5ab10aa.xml |
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> Instead I think we should be improving "eselect profile" to support |
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> multiple inheriting /etc/make.profile files in a user friendly fashion, |
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> and in the end removing 249 subprofiles, instead of adding 28+. |
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Consider me to be a huge fan of this idea. I'm already using it with my |
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managed-portage "system" that I posted some months ago. |
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Beware that some of the non-Portage PMs don't behave quite right with it |
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yet. ferringb was working on fixing pkgcore with I had noted to him with |
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the profiles. I'm not sure about Paludis off the top of my head. |
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We'd be saving at least 655 inodes on disk (in an rsync copy of the |
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tree, add another 1k inodes for a CVS checkout). |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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