Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:13 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:35, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote:
> >
> >>Sorry if i am confusing things here, but isn't this just _yet_ another
> >>profile that
> >>the user can choose to use?
> >
> > A profile in the tree has to be supported by someone.
> > It's also more likely that people would try it out without knowing what they
> > are going to open.
> >
> > An overlay makes users more conscious that they are going to require manual
> > work and they have to know where to look for support. If it's in portage,
> > it's more likely that users won't look at it deeply and just think that "it's
> > portage, so goes to gentoo bugzilla".
>
> See /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/dev/README :)

Yeah, except that's a lie.  I actually do support it.  That is mostly
there to let people know that I do play around in there and have been
known to break things in the past.  It is where I do all of the profile
work before a release, so I might play with ideas that do things that a
user might not want.

Basically, I don't follow the same "be very careful before adding stuff"
mantra in there as I would on default-linux/x86.  That being said, I
don't put anything there that I don't have *somebody* out there testing,
so it's known to work on at least a few systems.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux