From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j41H9dcX009086 for ; Sun, 1 May 2005 17:09:39 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSHwx-00034f-1H for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 May 2005 17:09:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 147 invoked from network); 1 May 2005 13:04:25 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 1 May 2005 13:04:25 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:11:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505011311.16967.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 1b07b08f-9bd7-433c-8816-5dd51fa3e3c7 X-Archives-Hash: 3483fb843bf0d46bd7d76a6589c6c267 On Sunday 01 May 2005 06:17 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > How long are all those non-cascaded profiles going to stick around? each arch manager is responsible for their own profiles all of the x86 ones have been pruned except for default-x86-2004.2 which we will keep for a while since there isnt a smooth upgrade path to a newer portage without it (older portages crash with cascaded make.defaults) > They > make profile changes a mess for anyone who wants to do something crazy > like change default USE flags for everyone. it's simple, dont bother touching the non-cascaded version. no one said you had to :P -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list