From: Alex Alexander <wired@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 profiles are in repository
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 03:50:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <225000070908061750r5ab776e6m136ce92148c5c192@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7B2C41.5080304@gentoo.org>
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 22:17, Zac Medico<zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> It would be pretty trivial to use a PORTAGE_PROFILES variable in
> make.conf, to replace /etc/make.profile. You could do something like
> this:
>
> PORTAGE_PROFILES="/usr/portage/profiles/desktop
> /usr/portage/profiles/gnome"
>
> You could use this approach to pull in profiles from overlays too if
> desired.
This looks pretty neat. Many (new) users who ignore or are ignorant of
profiles could benefit by it, since they'll (have to) look at it when
they first open the default /etc/make.conf
> --
> Thanks,
> Zac
>
>
--
Alex || wired
Gentoo Dev
www.linuxized.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-07 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 8:19 [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 profiles are in repository Samuli Suominen
2009-08-06 13:13 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-08-06 14:19 ` Samuli Suominen
2009-08-06 16:51 ` Mart Raudsepp
2009-08-06 18:39 ` Josh Saddler
2009-08-06 19:17 ` Zac Medico
2009-08-07 0:50 ` Alex Alexander [this message]
2009-08-07 8:36 ` AllenJB
2009-08-07 8:52 ` Zac Medico
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