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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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| A while back, I wrote GLEP 19[1] based on some of the needs of the |
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| gentoo-server project. For various reasons, the GLEP was tabled at the |
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| time and never went anywhere. A number of folks have expressed an interest |
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| in revitalizing this GLEP, so I'd like to start a new discussion about |
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| implementing it. There was a couple of previous threads on this GLEP back |
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| when it was first introduced that I'll include[2] for your reference. |
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| So, with that said, thoughts, comments and other ideas are welcome. |
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| --kurt |
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| [1] http://glep.gentoo.org/glep-0019.html |
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| [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/15511 |
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| http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/15584 (round 2) |
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~From the looks of the thread so far people seem to be leaning toward |
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implimenting this system via profiles rather than the suggested new keyword |
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system in the GLEP. I think there are a couple issues with that solution, |
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maybe someone can clarify this for me. |
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1. Users dealing with profiles would need to be able to be easily change, and |
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review the possible profiles via a nice interface so that when that quartly |
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switch comes, it isn't to hard to understand what is going on. |
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2. This will require a bit of a paradigm shift in users. At the moment it seems |
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~ (in the eyes of a normal user) like profiles are something in the background |
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of the system, but no one other than gentoo devs need know what they are or how |
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to use them. This is just my impression. |
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3. If a profile defines a specific set of packages that should not be upgraded |
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how are the possible security upgrades handled? If the profile defines package |
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versions then the profile would need to be modified. From my understanding a |
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stable profile normally should not be modified, but maybe this will change? |
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Michael Marineau |
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marineam@×××××××××.edu |
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Oregon State University |
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