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Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> I wanted to work at some point on splitting out gnome and kde profiles |
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> to separate ones. Perhaps desktop profile could be a generic universal |
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> one with USE flags enabled that rox/lxde/fluxbox and so on would like as |
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> well, and then gnome adds its stuff, and kde adds its own stuff. |
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> Or desktop could be one that enabled both GNOME and KDE stuff as now, by |
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> multi-inheriting both gnome and kde profiles. |
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> Or perhaps both a lowest common denominator desktop-base profile and a |
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> big desktop one enabling everything... |
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What could be nice is if users could select multiple profiles. They |
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first choose the "desktop" profile, which has lots of basic stuff that's |
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DE/WM-agnostic. They could then select another profile that adds e.g. |
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Gnome stuff, like you suggested. |
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I suppose the potential problem here (besides coding support for more |
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than one profile) is making sure that the selected profile's USE flags |
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(etc.) don't conflict with other selected profiles. Profile authors |
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would have to be pretty aware of what other profiles contain, and/or the |
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package manager would have to have some heavy duty resolver. |
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One could just avoid the whole multiple-profiles-selected thing by |
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cloning bits of one profile (like a minimal agnostic "desktop"), then |
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adding your own USE flags, and calling it the "Gnome" profile, but this |
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introduces lots of code duplication. |
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