From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg1Gh-0005Ty-MX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:15:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4GFEH5t000756; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:14:19 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4GF9KWA032314 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:09:20 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF1A645C0 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21500-15-2 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.137]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D899064599 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:09:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from spb42.christs.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.233.172]:2782 helo=localhost) by ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.157]:25) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Fg1AE-0003RU-Oc (Exim 4.54) for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org (return-path ); Tue, 16 May 2006 16:08:46 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:15:49 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc4 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "S.P. Bennett" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.377 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.222, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.377 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 886aa6fa-7664-44d4-8308-c6f8a0c2bac3 X-Archives-Hash: 1a7dbc3931551745950ca1f01a091a56 If noone has any strong reasonable objections, I'd like to add a Paludis profile to the tree. This would use Paludis as the default provider for virtual/portage (which is a less than ideal name, but that is another discussion entirely), and provide ebuild devs with a place where they can try out some of our profile enhancements should they want to. It is worth noting on the last point that most of these are long-standing Portage feature requests, at least some of which are planned for inclusion in Portage at some point in the future. This would allow devs access to them earlier, as a sort of testbed. The next question is where to put it. The options as I see them are under default-linux/x86/ or in a top-level paludis/ a la hardened, selinux, embedded, and the like. The latter is easier to exclude for those worried about tree size, though the impact there should be minimal. Neither way produces significantly more duplication, since we can make use of multiple profile inheritance. If anyone has any preference or other input, I'd like to hear it. That's my proposal. The benefits I like to think are obvious. The drawbacks are, as far as I can see, in tree size, which should be minimal. Those concerned about local tree size can exclude it, and for size on the mirrors it's trivial compared to the rest of the tree. Comments? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list