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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:14:26 -0300 Gustavo Zacarias |
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<gustavoz@g.o> wrote: |
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| By this time i may have had more than enough drinks, but wouldn't it |
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| be useful to handle a separate GRP profile? (or cascading profile). |
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| I mean, the basic profiles are skinny USE-wise and we (i) don't want |
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| to get them hogged... some source-building users mostly want to add |
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| stuff rather than remove, and it's logical. We should add some extras |
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| for GRPs somehow so they can get some goodies/features they lack |
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| because of the USE flags. |
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Hrm, that'd also allow us to lock down to specific glibc, gcc, perl, |
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openssl, etc. versions just for GRP. That would mostly remove one of the |
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big problems with GRP as it stands, and move us towards a redhat kind of |
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model for binaries. |
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Ciaran McCreesh, Gentoo XMLcracy Member G03X276 |
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(Sparc, MIPS, Vim, si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes) |
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Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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