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 4.43) id 1E9mjY-0003Qx-Ou for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:43:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TGfAur021107; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:41:10 GMT Received: from rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.31]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TGdSlT020766 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:39:29 GMT Received: from dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.243.63.84]) by rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id j7TGfPwA030166 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:41:25 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E9mhK-0007Jy-B5 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:41:26 -0400 Message-ID: <43133AB5.7020406@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:41:25 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050820) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <28B2A791-A149-4B58-86D8-8DD349D081E5@gentoo.org> <1125331147.1964.100.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1125331147.1964.100.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: ff27ab33-9148-4e19-847e-f6f2da51a252 X-Archives-Hash: 5ec9c6709c7c89a74ad9d4f81ca9f188 Chris Gianelloni wrote: >On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:30 -0500, Kito wrote: > > >>>So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? >>> >>> >>Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades >>for what they seem to be made for. >> >> > >As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work >necessary in maintaining them. As it was back then, it required changes >to an extremely large number of profiles every time a change was made to >the default USE flags. I honestly don't think it would be a good idea >to forget the lessons of the past and start bloating the profiles with >tons of "desktop" and "server" profiles, among anything else people >would want. After all, as soon as we did a "desktop" profile, then we >would have requests for "gnome" and "kde" sub-profiles. > >As I stated earlier, it's easier to not provide *any* than to try to >provide all of the ones that will inevitably be requested as soon as we >start adding them. > > > In general, it sounds like a good idea, but as far as i can see, it would be a for-the-user and by-the-user idea, but what about for the devs, it doesn't look like something easy to mantain. Nevertheless, what if we can provide instead tools/docs to help users with the task?, so anyone willing to do it, could easily create his/her own sub-profiles for kde/gnome/whatever ... Just an idea :-] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list