From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9m6s-0005L9-IJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:03:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TG06QV025702; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:06 GMT Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TFvJ5L029206 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:57:19 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j7TG06v4020936 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:00:06 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:59:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <28B2A791-A149-4B58-86D8-8DD349D081E5@gentoo.org> References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <28B2A791-A149-4B58-86D8-8DD349D081E5@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LrzfqnkU3ydjaFsuRMEF" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:59:07 -0400 Message-Id: <1125331147.1964.100.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 4ed75424-2712-499a-ad43-66d508ec178f X-Archives-Hash: 6df051be82c689fff8f83ce9ba40c1bc --=-LrzfqnkU3ydjaFsuRMEF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:30 -0500, Kito wrote: > > So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? >=20 > Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades =20 > for what they seem to be made for. As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work necessary in maintaining them. As it was back then, it required changes to an extremely large number of profiles every time a change was made to the default USE flags. I honestly don't think it would be a good idea to forget the lessons of the past and start bloating the profiles with tons of "desktop" and "server" profiles, among anything else people would want. After all, as soon as we did a "desktop" profile, then we would have requests for "gnome" and "kde" sub-profiles. As I stated earlier, it's easier to not provide *any* than to try to provide all of the ones that will inevitably be requested as soon as we start adding them. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-LrzfqnkU3ydjaFsuRMEF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDEzDLkT4lNIS36YERAs3NAJ9Wvkp08ePYfamDTqFt5k0dpkhQHwCghwSz jmmcKikNjepnsZPr3Bz/cVs= =wC16 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LrzfqnkU3ydjaFsuRMEF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list