Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

[Dan Meltzer]

If it was an extra ebuild, the profiles directory would need to exist
outside of /usr/portage, would it not? This to prevent it from being
blown up at next sync.

On 8/29/05, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:59 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work
> > necessary in maintaining them.  As it was back then, it required changes
> > to an extremely large number of profiles every time a change was made to
> > the default USE flags.
> Just a crazy idea - why not create a package containing some profiles?
> You can use the default profile, and if you want a different profile,
> "emerge portage-profiles" or whatever it is called and use that. I guess
> I've missed something obvious here?
> >  I honestly don't think it would be a good idea
> > to forget the lessons of the past and start bloating the profiles with
> > tons of "desktop" and "server" profiles, among anything else people
> > would want.  After all, as soon as we did a "desktop" profile, then we
> > would have requests for "gnome" and "kde" sub-profiles.
> which are not much work if kde = desktop -gtk -gnome +kde
>
> > As I stated earlier, it's easier to not provide *any* than to try to
> > provide all of the ones that will inevitably be requested as soon as we
> > start adding them.
> Or provide them in an extra ebuild that throws lots of warnings so that any users that don't read the warnings can be RESOLVED WONTFIXed?
>
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