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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:35:44
Message-Id: 20060812213237.65452cff@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles by Zac Medico
1 On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
4 | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we
5 | only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent
6 | file (only 1 is currently allowed). When a parent file contains
7 | multiple parents, parents listed later if the file will have the
8 | ability to override those listed earlier in the file.
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10 One per line?
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