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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:36:40
Message-Id: 52E3BDB3.6030300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy by Mike Frysinger
1 On 01/22/2014 06:58 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 20 January 2014 12:26:13 William Hubbs wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 >>> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in the one
5 >>> place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc.
6 >>
7 >> If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in this
8 >> file?
9 >
10 > maybe. devmanual doesn't talk about this file at all atm.
11 >
12 > or maybe i still have it in my head that devmanual.g.o is the ad-hoc
13 > documentation and not a policy manual -- policy lives in the Gentoo Developer
14 > Handbook.
15
16 The handbook has not been updated for a good number of years therefore I
17 am moving bits from it to devmanual whenever I have the time.
18
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20 Regards,
21 Markos Chandras