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 1E9o7p-0005Cl-RX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:12:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TIAISB015937; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:10:18 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TI8GK3007283 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:08:16 GMT Received: from dsl-082-083-254-132.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.254.132] helo=[10.0.0.13]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1E9o5E-00013h-JO for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:10:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1125331147.1964.100.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <28B2A791-A149-4B58-86D8-8DD349D081E5@gentoo.org> <1125331147.1964.100.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Gg1FWxafcHx0AhIhPCF8" Organization: Gentoo Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:10:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1125339012.5545.7.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> 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: abfd5b17-89e3-4c51-a4af-f9489e51f356 X-Archives-Hash: 07266f1064a32700af3ccb511bcdd9ce --=-Gg1FWxafcHx0AhIhPCF8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 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 =3D desktop -gtk -gnome +kde=20 > 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? --=20 Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move --=-Gg1FWxafcHx0AhIhPCF8 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-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDE0+EqER3hOUoZM4RAoExAJ9vJH9lSOug5o8gVYljtNewLucYnwCcCgL5 uBwy5L+fKeOF2nw/YzyfjSM= =WwNl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Gg1FWxafcHx0AhIhPCF8-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list