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On 02/02/2017 09:31 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> The desktop profile is going to do things like enable X11 support by |
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> default. It isn't going to do things like enable bzip support in |
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> ffmpeg (but not the new experimental codec that causes it to crash 25% |
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> of the time, but which apparently works great if you use libav |
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> instead), or tools support in tripwire, or e2fsprogs support in |
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> libarchive, or threads support in beecrypt, or any of a million other |
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> things that aren't desktop-specific. |
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Then throw in an intermediate profile |
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base -> all-that-junk -> desktop |
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and everyone that's inheriting from base now can inherit from the new |
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profile instead. Nothing changes, except we get the cruft out of base |
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and into a new profile that people can ignore. The defaults are still |
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recorded once, in one place. Just in a profile now instead of in IUSE. |
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