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Hi, |
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In the Seeds overlay, I've been working on an experimental profile for the |
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LAMP Server seed (*). The overlay uses a new USE-EXPAND, which I've called |
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SEEDS_EXTRA, to cleanly control the 'extra', or 'value-added' features that |
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a Seed can include when it is built from source [1]. |
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The intention is that Seeds will ship with a default set of SEEDS_EXTRA |
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features enabled [2]; users who would prefer to customize a seed by building |
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from source will be supported too. |
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Why a new USE-EXPAND, instead of just using USE flags? We're using |
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SEEDS_EXTRA to define the high-level functionality that a seed comes with. |
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We started out mixing this up in USE flags along with everything else, but |
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we feel things are much clearer for ourselves and for users if they're |
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separated out into their own USE-EXPAND. |
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[1] |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/seeds/browser/trunk/profiles/desc/seeds_extra.desc |
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[2] |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/seeds/browser/trunk/profiles/seeds/lamp-server/x86/release-1/make.defaults |
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(*) The profiles will need to change to take advantage of multiple |
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inheritance, and Chris's new profiles, once they hit the tree. We don't |
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expect those changes to affect the SEEDS_EXTRA USE-EXPAND. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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http://blog.stuartherbert.com/ |
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GnuPG key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu |
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