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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:30 -0500, Kito wrote: |
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> > So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? |
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> Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades |
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> for what they seem to be made for. |
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As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work |
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necessary in maintaining them. As it was back then, it required changes |
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to an extremely large number of profiles every time a change was made to |
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the default USE flags. I honestly don't think it would be a good idea |
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to forget the lessons of the past and start bloating the profiles with |
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tons of "desktop" and "server" profiles, among anything else people |
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would want. After all, as soon as we did a "desktop" profile, then we |
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would have requests for "gnome" and "kde" sub-profiles. |
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As I stated earlier, it's easier to not provide *any* than to try to |
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provide all of the ones that will inevitably be requested as soon as we |
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start adding them. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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