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Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 17:26:52 +0200
From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New basic systemd profile
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On Sat, 2 May 2015 05:53:57 -0400
Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:28:52 -0400
> > Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Due to popular demand, I have added a basic systemd profile for
> >> amd64:
> >
> > what about we start telling people /etc/make.profile can be a dir
> > and that you can fill the 'parent' file in there just as well as
> > you ln -s it ?
> 
> That is the whole mix-in concept.  In order to make that work we'd
> really need to work towards it.  You can't inherit profiles in
> arbitrary order.  If you want something like mix-ins you really need
> to split profiles up into certain classes and define rules about which
> ones are used for what.  Then they won't be stepping on each other's
> toes.


Rules that make that work are simple, but instead, we seem to be heading
towards '# of arches * # of DEs * # of init systems * # of gentoo
releases * # of ABIs * # of libcs' profiles. Most of them being just
about a 'parent' file, and thus, I hope, following the good practices :)

Alexis.