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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> Shallow profiles avoid this. Also "features" avoid this (the |
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> closest thing we have to mix-ins) provided they operate on a set of |
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> flags/packages orthogonal to the rest of the stack. You then have shallow |
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> base and you can add as many features as you like in, in any order, |
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> confident that one will not clobber stuff from another since each feature is |
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> well separated. |
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That was my thinking as well. If we had categories of profiles and |
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set up the rules to try to keep things orthogonal then we're going to |
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be better off. Also, things like feature profiles should try to be |
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additive in nature. |
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Rich |