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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:37:35
Message-Id: 1160397251.10496.5.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2 by Zac Medico
1 On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 20:04 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Should we add multiple inheritance support now? The changes
3 > necessary to add this support are minimal and we can have this
4 > feature in portage-2.1.2 [3], which I estimate will be ready for a
5 > final release in approximately 3 to 5 weeks.
6
7 I would love this. I already have a neat set of profiles to completely
8 replace what we have in the tree now (for default-linux) that needs
9 multiple inheritance. It would make the work for Release Engineering
10 much simpler, since we could have the ability to edit a single "2007.0"
11 profile, and have the changes on all arches instantly.
12
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14 Chris Gianelloni
15 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
16 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
17 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
18 Gentoo Foundation

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