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Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> We've been living with the 2008.0 profiles for a while now. I think the |
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> time has come for 2009.0 profiles so we can have some updates. Also, |
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> there are plans for an anniversary release of our LiveCD, so I think the |
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> time is right to start working on a new set of profiles. |
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> One reason I bring this up is that the Qt team would like to see the qt3 |
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> useflag dropped from desktop profiles, and I'm sure others have some |
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> suggestions as well. |
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Haven't the devs just been making changes directly to the profiles since |
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at least autobuilds came about? I'm sure I've seen some global use flag |
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changes relatively recently. What is the actual policy on this? |
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It seems kind of pointless to me to tie global use flag changes to a |
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release cycle when per-package use flags are now changed "on a whim" |
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(with EAPI-2 style default use flags) |
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> Traditionally, the release team has taken care of this, as the profiles |
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> were tied to releases of install media and stage3 archives. Now that we |
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> have the autobuilds, this relationship isn't as self-evident anymore, |
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> which is why I address the wider dev community. |
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With the introduction of autobuilds, would it be a good idea to rename |
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the profiles so that they don't have the date association? This does |
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seem to confuse a number of new users who will appear asking where the |
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2009 profiles are. |
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What does Gentoo use versioned profiles for now that use flag changes, |
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in particular per-package use flags, don't seem to be linked at all. |
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What should they be used for? |
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Is this going to be another thing that isn't updated in the Handbooks? |
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> Please share your ideas on this. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Ben |
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