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On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 18:48 +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 01:16 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > One user wants Gnome, the other wants Plasma. Is this doable? |
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> > |
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> > Currently, Plasma is installed, and the profile is: |
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> > |
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> > default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd |
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> > |
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> > The profiles seem to be either-or. There's one for plasma, one for |
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> > gnome. But I need both now :-/ |
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> They just provide ease of installation by enabling some USE flags |
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> globally or per-package for you, to avoid having to add them manually |
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> on a fresh install or so. |
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> |
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> You can create a local mix-in by having /etc/portage/make.profile as |
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> a |
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> directory with an eapi and parent file, but that has some caveats, so |
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> given that I leave the details to find out elsewhere when desired. |
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> Or you can just use one and add the stuff for the other manually, |
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> verbatim or as-needed. |
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> What they do can be seen in |
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> profiles/targets/desktop/gnome |
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> profiles/targets/desktop/plasma |
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> subdirectories of your PORTDIR (probably /usr/portage/) |
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> |
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> The global USE flags each adds are in make.defaults file and the per- |
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> package USE flag tweaks are in package.use files. |
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> So you could for example keep using the systemd plasma profile, add |
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> the |
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> global USE flags from |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/make.defaults to your |
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> make.conf and symlink |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/package.use to a |
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> gnome.use |
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> file under /etc/portage/package.use/ directory or so and voilà, you |
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> got |
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> effectively both. |
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That said, the global USE flag manual copy to make.conf might get |
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outdated; e.g. we plan to add USE=wayland as global default to gnome |
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profile at some point soon(tm). Though make.defaults could be symlinked |
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as well, I think to /etc/portage/profile/make.defaults |
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Though these changes are rare, and it's a convenience anyways, e.g. you |
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might have decided to globally enable wayland earlier already; or once |
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the change is made you might counter it with a global disable in |
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make.conf anyways. |
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