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Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman: |
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Long story short, doing anything to Gentoo profiles is utter pain |
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> > and comes with random breakage guarantee. Therefore, I'm asking -- nuke |
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> > those damn profiles, and start over! The current situation is |
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> > completely unmaintainable. |
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> ++ |
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> But, would it make sense to just go the Funtoo route with "mix-ins." |
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> Basically instead of symlinking make.profile to a profile directory |
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> they turn make.profile into an actual profile which just has a parent |
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> that inherits all the real profiles, and eselect is designed to handle |
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> it. |
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> That would get rid of the 47 permutations in our current tree. It |
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> would also reduce the barrier to adding more options, since it means |
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> adding one subdir that only affects those who use/maintain it, and not |
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> 23 combinations that drive everybody mad. |
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this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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kde, council |