Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again)

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

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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 02:05, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:15:42PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dylan Carlson 
wrote:
> > I think it would be fine to allow people to do it this way, and some
> > people already do, but I don't think it should be part of Enterprise
> > Gentoo. Profiling isn't complex.  Trying to support the millions of
> > different ways people can set up overlays is.
>
> I agree with Dylan here.  While a tarball approach is certainly one
> possilbe approach, requiring security ebuilds to be housed in an overlay
> adds an extra layer of complexity.  The profiling solution is easier given
> the way our tools (mainly portage) currently operate.

While I don't care about tarball vs. rsync (both don't matter that much to me) 
I don't think a profile is a solution. It would contain too many packages. 
Further it would still need maintenance for new packages as packages that are 
not pinned in the profile are available freely

Paul

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