Re: [gentoo-dev] Grouping with profiles

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:28:06 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<spyderous@g.o> wrote:
| On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 17:23 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
| > Personally, I think the groups should be well defined and quite
| > specific.  After all, we are simply trying to reduce the number of
| > things a person needs to configure in make.conf, not make it so a
| > person can USE="@GNOME" and expect it to give them everything they
| > would want(or are we?) for a Gnome desktop.  I think if we were
| > going to do that, then our best bet would be to start using profiles
| > to add a bunch of stuff.  After
| > all, /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3/desktop/gnome
| > sounds like a winner.
| 
| This is a great idea. I brought it up to lanius the other day, looking
| for a place to default to on with USE=ppds. desktop/make.defaults
| would be ideal.

Stick it in @DESKTOP. Remember that cascading profiles don't do multiple
inheritance.

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