Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:11:25 -0400 Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
> | > wrote:
> | > | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but
> | > | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance.  In order to do this, we
> | > | only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the
> | > | parent file (only 1 is currently allowed).  When a parent file
> | > | contains multiple parents, parents listed later if the file will
> | > | have the ability to override those listed earlier in the file.
> | 
> | I still like Mixin's[1] with node deps ;)
> 
> You can get the best of both worlds using straight MI, if the profile
> tree is structured properly. Use the existing hierarchy for the 'main'
> profile and mixins (nodes with no parent) as extras. The only problem
> with this is Portage's current reliance upon a single symlink to
> specify the profile... With Paludis one could do:
> 
> profiles = default-linux/x86/2006.0 extra/x86/pentium4 extra/misc/cookie
> 
> but with /etc/make.profile that's not an option...
> 

Hmmm This sounds a lot more like what Kumba wanted than my original 
thoughts ;)
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