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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:38:50 -0400 Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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| The idea was to simply change the "default" USE flags based on the |
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| profile. Someone using the desktop/gnome profile would have things |
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| automatically enabled in their USE flags that are not enabled with the |
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| standard system profile. |
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I'd considered the profile route as the other alternative when I was |
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first trying to figure out the best approach. Problems are: |
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- even with cascades, we'd have to maintain the same list of flags in |
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multiple places (cascades don't do multiple inheritance). |
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- it gets messy when you bring archs into it. use.mask combined with use |
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groups can make the whole thing "as near as possible" arch portable for |
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no extra effort. |
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- we'd end up with a heck of a lot of 'role' subprofiles. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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