Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles (round 2)

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 01:46, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:56 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > Isn't profiles.desc just a list of *default* profiles though?  We want a
> > list of all valid profiles.  So I think we should either extend
> > profiles.desc to contain all valid profiles, or add a new file.
>
> Either way would be fine by me, but portage would have to be modified to
> allow for multiple profiles to be listed per arch in profiles.desc

It won't break anything if that's what you're worried about. The only thing 
that uses profiles.desc is repoman, which can "handle" multiple profiles 
listed. ... I just found that all duplicates have been removed from 
profiles.desc. I guess people don't like noise. ;)

Okay. For the time being, there's a two things that can be done with repoman. 
It could print out a table of the profiles it will use for scanning or add 
the profile that was checked against into the arch-based failure message. 
What do you think?

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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