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 1FgNCX-0002wK-KG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:40:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HEb609026394; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:37:06 GMT Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HEQ7Pp005185 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:26:07 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.139] (helo=anti-virus01-10) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FgMyV-0002vp-1Z for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:07 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FgMyU-0003ea-JT for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:06 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:25:45 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060517152545.501b3e66@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1147874321.16876.13.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <446A1B5D.8040402@gentoo.org> <200605162105.52805.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <20060516231453.171002b9@epia.jeroenr-c2.orkz.net> <20060516232253.2c589768@localhost> <1147874321.16876.13.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; 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 X-Archives-Salt: a5a333e1-1aa4-4ec2-a38a-45340ba43db5 X-Archives-Hash: bee4aa8803e685ffb2f74631e5938b0f On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:58:41 -0400 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | Paludis supports multiple repositories correctly, right? So why is | it a big deal to provide the profiles in their own | overlay/repository? I haven't heard a good reason why the profiles | need to be in the portage tree. I'm not saying I am against it being | added so much as I haven't heard a single compelling reason for doing | it, and quite a few compelling reasons why *not* to do it, mainly | support-related. We'd have to extend the parent file to support something like: $(location_of_repository_named gentoo)/profiles/default-linux/etc since a) profiles are per-repository and b) we don't want to copy the whole Gentoo profile structure. Now, whilst this change could be useful, it's going to cause a huge incompatibility with Portage... So unless someone can come up with a solution that won't... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list