Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles (round 2)

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 15:19 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 07:17 +1300, Jerome Brown wrote:
> > Wont this cause headaches when it comes to depreciating profiles
> > however? If there are very few changes between versions, I can forsee a
> > time where someone wants to keep 2004.3, 2005.0, 2005.1, 2006.0, 2006.1,
> > 2007.0, 2007.1 around because 2008.0 inherits from 2007.1 which inherits
> > from ... (you get the idea). How would this work and how long would you
> > be willing to keep a profile around for until it is removed and not just
> > depreciated?
> 
> Well, we would need to have enough sense to migrate data when we
> deprecate.  Once we deprecate 2004.3, we would copy the 2004.3 stuff to
> 2005.0 and break the inheritance on 2004.3 from 2005.0 and so on.
> 
> As for deprecation, I think we currently have a loose rule of 6 months
> after deprecation for the profile removal.
> 

How about plan B:  Do not make sub profiles depend on each other?


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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