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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> You can get the best of both worlds using straight MI, if the profile |
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>> tree is structured properly. Use the existing hierarchy for the 'main' |
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>> profile and mixins (nodes with no parent) as extras. The only problem |
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>> with this is Portage's current reliance upon a single symlink to |
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>> specify the profile... With Paludis one could do: |
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>> profiles = default-linux/x86/2006.0 extra/x86/pentium4 extra/misc/cookie |
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>> but with /etc/make.profile that's not an option... |
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> Hmmm This sounds a lot more like what Kumba wanted than my original |
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> thoughts ;) |
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This is pretty much exactly what Kumba was talking about. I didn't like the idea |
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simply because it allowed the user to shoot themselves in the foot way too |
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easily. It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be strictly |
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controlled by the arch teams and releng anymore. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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