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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: wolf31o2@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:25:59
Message-Id: 20041202212554.236962a4@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:12:40 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
2 <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
3 | On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:31 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > AFAICS there's no way to tell whether a profile is "inherit only" or
5 | > whether it's complete enough to be used by an end user. Would it
6 | > make sense to have an empty text file called "inherit-only" (for
7 | > example) within profiles which aren't usable?
8 |
9 | I was always under the impression that all profiles should be usable.
10 | If that is not the case, then I 100% agree that there should be some
11 | way of marking a profile as unusable.
12
13 Well, you couldn't really sanely run a system with your profile symlink
14 pointing to 'base' or 'default-linux'.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
18 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
19 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>