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On Tuesday 06 December 2011 17:27:48 Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:06:33PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 06 December 2011 16:52:55 Brian Harring wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 03:52:07PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > > On Tuesday 06 December 2011 14:28:02 Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > > > > On 12/06/2011 10:04 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > > > > what might be interesting is if we had a "Gentoo default" set |
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> > > > > > which is what would come in a stage3 rather than the current |
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> > > > > > "stage3 is the system set". then we could move virtual/ssh out |
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> > > > > > of the system set and into the "Gentoo default" set so it'd be |
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> > > > > > easier for people to drop/etc... but i'm not familiar enough |
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> > > > > > with the portage support atm to say how feasible such an idea |
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> > > > > > would be. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Similar to how we use packages.build to define the stage1 set, we |
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> > > > > could add a packages.default to define the stage3 set. |
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> > > > > Alternatively, we could use a meta-package to pull in the |
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> > > > > defaults, and adjust the stage3 build to pull in that meta-package |
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> > > > > automatically. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > the packages.default sounds like a good idea as then we'd be able to |
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> > > > tweak/stack it on a per-profile basis like existing files. i'll file |
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> > > > a release bug on the topic, and then we can talk about moving |
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> > > > virtual/ssh out of system and into that. |
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> > > |
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> > > We really need something generic here rather than just introducing new |
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> > > files; this basically duplicates sets for example. |
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> > sets isn't in stable portage yet, right ? and is it stackable in |
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> > profiles ? |
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> Bluntly, portage set support from the tree isn't something I'm sure we |
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> really want to support /anyways/; it's fairly portage specific last I |
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> looked. Also, it isn't stackable from profiles. |
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sounds like you support Zac's previous idea then: packages.default :) |
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-mike |