[gentoo-dev] new profile layout with flavors and mix-ins

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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All,

I'm moving to a new thread since the discussion has moved away from just
a sub profile for no-multilib.

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:30:50AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Andreas K. Huettel
> <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> > Long story short, doing anything to Gentoo profiles is utter pain
> >> > and comes with random breakage guarantee. Therefore, I'm asking -- nuke
> >> > those damn profiles, and start over! The current situation is
> >> > completely unmaintainable.
> >>
> >> ++
> >>
> >> But, would it make sense to just go the Funtoo route with "mix-ins."
> > ++
> >
> > this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel
> 
> So, not wanting this to die on the vine.
> 
> If we did the mix-in approach, would we just follow the example of Funtoo?
> 
> They use an arch profile, a stability profile (~arch vs arch), a
> "flavor" profile (core, minimal, desktop), and then users can layer as
> much other stuff on top of that as they want (gnome, kde, multimedia,
> etc).

I think this could work for us as well, or something similar anyway.

For those who are curious, I am including the link to the flavors and
mix-ins descriptions from the funtoo site. [1]

> 
> Do we want to do things the same way?
> 
> Some things to think about include multilib (just another arch?),
> systemd, and usr-merge.  I'm not saying that we need to implement any
> of that stuff completely - but when planning the profile layout we
> should at least consider whether it will handle things like this in
> the future.  Should some types of profiles be only additive?  Etc...

I see systemd and multilib as mix-ins, like the ones you mentioned
above.

It is funny that you mention usr-merge. I don't want to get into a big
debate on it on this thread, so for now I'll just say that I don't see
that as affecting the profile structure at all.

William

[1] http://www.funtoo.org/Flavors_and_Mix-ins

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