Re: [gentoo-dev] system profiles, stackable profiles, virtuals, and dependencies

[Marius Mauch]

On 07/25/04  Ned Ludd wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:02, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Others can give you a better response -- but as for the
> > virtual/logger and virtual/cron in system profiles, I think that
> > would mess up the livecd and install stages, because they would then
> > get bloated up.
> >
>
>
> > As far as cascading profiles are concerned -- we don't have any way
> > to add custom stuffs to the profiles (yet?).
>
> Sure we do..
> User symlinks his/her make.profile to the right cascading profile in
> ../../usr/portage/profiles/${profile_name} then fills his/her
> /etc/portage/virtuals with all the fun files he/she wants to swapped
> out for what the profiles/${profile_name}/arch/.. would provide.
>
> This combined with a user supplied overlay can be quite powerful for
> rapid deployment and allow for alot of custom build scenarios.
>
> > It might be on the roadmap
> > for some future date, though.  The immediate goal for cascading
> > profiles was really to de-bloat /usr/portage/profiles.  I'd suggest
> > filing a bug to dev-portage@gentoo for the custom support though.

Hmm, I must have overseen that mail and ciaranm will probably kick me
for mentioning it, but you always have /etc/portage/profile as the
topmost level on the profile stack with the same rights and duties as
all other profiles, independent if you actually use    
    profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.0 
or 
    profiles/default-x86-2004.0 (adjust to your environment).

Marius

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