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All, |
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I'm moving to a new thread since the discussion has moved away from just |
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a sub profile for no-multilib. |
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:30:50AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Andreas K. Huettel |
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> <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman: |
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> >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> > Long story short, doing anything to Gentoo profiles is utter pain |
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> >> > and comes with random breakage guarantee. Therefore, I'm asking -- nuke |
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> >> > those damn profiles, and start over! The current situation is |
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> >> > completely unmaintainable. |
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> >> |
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> >> ++ |
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> >> But, would it make sense to just go the Funtoo route with "mix-ins." |
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> > ++ |
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> > this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel |
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> So, not wanting this to die on the vine. |
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> If we did the mix-in approach, would we just follow the example of Funtoo? |
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> They use an arch profile, a stability profile (~arch vs arch), a |
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> "flavor" profile (core, minimal, desktop), and then users can layer as |
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> much other stuff on top of that as they want (gnome, kde, multimedia, |
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> etc). |
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I think this could work for us as well, or something similar anyway. |
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For those who are curious, I am including the link to the flavors and |
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mix-ins descriptions from the funtoo site. [1] |
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> Do we want to do things the same way? |
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> Some things to think about include multilib (just another arch?), |
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> systemd, and usr-merge. I'm not saying that we need to implement any |
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> of that stuff completely - but when planning the profile layout we |
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> should at least consider whether it will handle things like this in |
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> the future. Should some types of profiles be only additive? Etc... |
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I see systemd and multilib as mix-ins, like the ones you mentioned |
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above. |
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It is funny that you mention usr-merge. I don't want to get into a big |
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debate on it on this thread, so for now I'll just say that I don't see |
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that as affecting the profile structure at all. |
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William |
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[1] http://www.funtoo.org/Flavors_and_Mix-ins |
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