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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:54:40
Message-Id: 20140120185426.GA6386@laptop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy by Alexander Berntsen
1 On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:18:46PM +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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5 > On 20/01/14 18:26, William Hubbs wrote:
6 > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 > >> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in
8 > >> the one place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc.
9 > > If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in
10 > > this file?
11 > profiles.desc is installed on a user's system. Users don't read the
12 > dev manual.
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14 All policies are being documented in the dev manual, so I was just
15 saying that I think this should go there if it is going to be official.
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17 Whether or not it is in a local file (on the users' system) isn't
18 relevant, developers should be familiar with the dev manual.
19
20 William

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