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From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] introduce Prefix 17.0 profiles.
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:43:40
Message-Id: 874lnv21m9.fsf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] introduce Prefix 17.0 profiles. by Aaron Bauman
1 Hi Aaron,
2
3 Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> writes:
4
5 > I am not too familair with prefix other than the purpose of it (e.g. I
6 > have never built it), but is there a better naming standard for the
7 > profiles? I understand the need to distinguish between the kernel and
8 > glibc versions.
9
10 > Is there a standard I am missing for profile names?
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12 From PMS, there is no words on profile naming. But I think adopting
13 naming of category [A-Za-z0-9+_.-] will not be too wrong:
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15 https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-170003.1.1
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17 > Could there be a wiki explaining a prefix profile versioning that
18 > correlates to the glibc and kernel versions? Or is the intent to keep
19 > it simple and easily identifiable from within the PM?
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21 A wiki page would be a good idea for detailed explanations.
22
23 > Not a big deal, but just my thoughts. Thanks for your work on prefix
24 > and I am sure many will benefit from the new profiles :)
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26 Thanks for inputs!
27
28 Yours,
29 Benda

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