Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:04, C. Brewer wrote:
>  I'd rather not see the suggestion of creating new profiles myself, unless
> you guys want to be fielding that many more bugs. While it is possible to
> do so, a new profile would have to be stored elsewhere or restricted from
> the rsync, not to mention the combination of packages needed and all kinds
> of cans of worms being opened there. Plus overall, doesn't it seem like a
> sledgehammer approach to smacking a gnat?

I agree that creating a new profile is not that easy. It just needs to go in 
/etc/make.profile. You could automatically create it from the existing profile 
with a simple grep script and symlinks for the unchanged files. This would 
not be that much of a hassle.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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