Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:59 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 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. 
Just a crazy idea - why not create a package containing some profiles?
You can use the default profile, and if you want a different profile,
"emerge portage-profiles" or whatever it is called and use that. I guess
I've missed something obvious here?
>  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.
which are not much work if kde = desktop -gtk -gnome +kde 

> 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.
Or provide them in an extra ebuild that throws lots of warnings so that any users that don't read the warnings can be RESOLVED WONTFIXed?

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