From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26221 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2004 18:10:50 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 Dec 2004 18:10:50 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CaHtK-0004nW-MZ for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:10:50 +0000 Received: (qmail 15822 invoked by uid 89); 3 Dec 2004 18:10:50 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24404 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2004 18:10:50 +0000 From: Luke-Jr To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:11:27 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20041202193116.257eef32@snowdrop.home> <200412031748.57723.luke-jr@utopios.org> <20041203180027.5b9e765f@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20041203180027.5b9e765f@snowdrop.home> IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412031811.27468.luke-jr@utopios.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles X-Archives-Salt: 1fff7d9c-cb67-4665-b6ad-4973b0c12cac X-Archives-Hash: be955735f09f316777f992bd1456b1a0 On Friday 03 December 2004 6:00 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:48:51 +0000 Luke-Jr wrote: > | A better comparison would be like defining them as "completed" instead > | of "incomplete". > | If a valid-marker is used, it can (and probably should) be inherited. > > No no no. A profile might be valid have some subprofiles which are not > themselves directly valid. Random example, we might have something > vaguely like (example only, not suggested as anything like an actual > possible implementation): > > > > Ok, that's a pretty bad example. In fact it's a terrible example, but I > can't think of a better one off the top of my head. Chances are sooner > or later it'll end up happening though... Which is why it might be better to have profiles be either valid-marked or invalid-marked and default to inheriting. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list