Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 21:05 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 20:35 schrieb Gustavo Zacarias:
> > Stephen Bennett wrote:
> > > That's my proposal. The benefits I like to think are obvious. The
> > > drawbacks are, as far as I can see, in tree size, which should be
> > > minimal. Those concerned about local tree size can exclude it, and
> > > for size on the mirrors it's trivial compared to the rest of the
> > > tree.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> >
> > As long as it's outside the "stable" (200x.y) portage profiles i'm
> > fine with it for SPARC. I think Ferris was testing paludis so i'm
> > sure he can handle it.
> > With respect to the "hey support omg!" comments i say stick a big fat
> > README about being an experimental profile or something like that and
> > that's it. Usually bug reports require "emerge --info" so it'll be
> > easy to flag invalid ones anyway.
> 
> [Disclaimer: I'm involved in paludis development and may be biased]
> I talked with the other AMD64 leads about adding a paludis subprofile to 
> default-linux/amd64. Blubb said he'd rather have a global profile, 
> Kingtaco state to be neutral in regard to adding another amd64 
> subprofile. I'd rather have a global profile, too.
> 
> Summary: amd64 team can live with a paludis profile, we prefer to have a 
> global profile, though.
> 
> 
> PS:
> As a sidenote to people who test or play with paludis and find packages 
> that don't compile/install: Please don't file bugs with gentoo. Come to 
> #paludis and discuss with us. If we tell you to do so, file bugs with 
> paludis@berlios.de. We are really interested to know which packages 
> don't work.

(Wearing my Release Engineering hat): I implore anyone planning on
adding something like this to keep it *outside* of default-linux.  A
paludis/* set of profiles, much like hardened or uclibc, would be the
best approach for this, if it ends up being accepted.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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