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> I do understand now why you cannot (usually) change profiles; the profile |
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> system is a mess and really needs a whole new overall design. That's why we |
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> still have '13' in the profiles even though it's 2015. The entire gentoo |
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> profile system is showing it's age and evolutionary problems, imho. I not |
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> saying I'm taking on that brood of hornets, but just a few select |
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> migrations from embedded to minimal. |
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Yes it needs some bigger overhaul, there's more or less agreement on it. Unfortunately that is also a big amount of work, and needs a lot of planning. So it won't happen overnight... |
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That said... Changing profile on your local machine is not a big deal usually. And there just has not been the need for a new profile tree in the meantime. (BTW, before 13 was 10, but that didnt get its name from 2010...) |
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> Note {embedded << minimal << default} I still have some vintage gentoo |
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> systems running which have very few flags set and include (USE="-*") in |
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> make.conf. And a {state-machine/executive/rtos << embedded(linux)}, |
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> just so we are on the same page. |
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Would be interesting to know what you mean exactly by "minimal" (there is no such profile) and "embedded". |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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