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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:54:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120185426.GA6386@laptop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DD6886.6000507@plaimi.net>

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:18:46PM +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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> On 20/01/14 18:26, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in
> >> the one place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc.
> > If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in 
> > this file?
> profiles.desc is installed on a user's system. Users don't read the
> dev manual.

All policies are being documented in the dev manual, so I was just
saying that I think this should go there if it is going to be official.

Whether or not it is in a local file (on the users' system) isn't
relevant, developers should be familiar with the dev manual.

William


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20  7:23 [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy Mike Frysinger
2014-01-20 17:26 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-20 18:18   ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-01-20 18:54     ` William Hubbs [this message]
2014-01-20 19:40       ` Markos Chandras
2014-01-21 15:10         ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-22  6:58     ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-21 15:05   ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-22  6:58   ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-22 23:51     ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-25 13:35     ` Markos Chandras

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