On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 05:21 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > I'm working on a profile module for the top-sekrit eclectic project (formerly
> > known as eselect) and have run into the problem of not being able to provide a
> > list of valid profiles.
> > 
> > 'find $(portageq portdir)/profiles -type d' was suggested but that would also
> > have base/ and updates/ in the list.
> > 
> > Can we finish this discussion and get something implemented?
> > 
> > [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=110201593924411&w=2
> > 
> 
> hmmm... maybe I should've thrown in some stereotypes...

How about we add a /usr/portage/profiles/profiles, in the same vein as
categories?  That should be simple enough and allow us to specify
"valid" profiles for use.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux