Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Adding sets to @world in custom profile?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 14:46 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:35:39 +0000
> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 13:46 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:45:48 +0000
> > > Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com> wrote:
> > >  
> > > > On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 00:41 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:  
> > > > > On 11/27/2015 12:24 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:    
> > > > > > On a related note, could not profile-formats = portage-2 profile-set
> > > > > > become default ?    
> > > > >
> > > > > For purposes of interoperability, we use PMS to document the standard
> > > > > profile format. So, in order to change the default profile format as you
> > > > > suggest, we would have to change PMS retroactively. Generally,
> > > > > retroactive changes to PMS need to be very well justified in order to be
> > > > > accepted.    
> > > >
> > > > hmm, how about in gentoo layout.conf?
> > > > There seems to be additions there so perhaps one can add
> > > > profile-formats = portage-2 profile-set ?  
> > >
> > > This will break the two alternative package managers as profile-set is
> > > only implemented in Portage.  
> >
> > What about:
> > # Use thin Manifests for Git
> > thin-manifests = false
> >
> > # Sign Git commits, and NOT Manifests
> > sign-commits = false
> > sign-manifests = false
> >
> > Are these not fairly new too? How could these enter the gentoo repo?
>
> Hardly. They were both supported for a few years now (and used in many
> repositories), and considered useful.
>
> > What about adding portage-2 now and announce profile-set to be added soon?
>
> Why? Most of us don't even have a clue what is it and how it works.
> In fact, the name 'portage-*' implies it's non-standard extension that
> can't be used where portability matters.
>


portage-2 allows stacking of (custom) profiles, very useful I think.

profile-set I think is needed for the @profile set, impl. in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532224



 Jocke