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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:02:18
Message-Id: 44DE4067.8000602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
6 > wrote:
7 > | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
8 > | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we
9 > | only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent
10 > | file (only 1 is currently allowed). When a parent file contains
11 > | multiple parents, parents listed later if the file will have the
12 > | ability to override those listed earlier in the file.
13 >
14 > One per line?
15 >
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17 Yes, you read my mind. ;)
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19 Zac
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