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 1E9oFl-0005qE-HC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:21:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TIGmjN017991; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:16:48 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TIDJ0M019408 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:13:20 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so530357wra for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:15:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YNZkE/6Ha49xIHpz+Hp1Bd7pie0J8liXQ7IbjST2sL2rPyvuGy1x9hpSuGxezEiiDxxnnQs0W5TX+WXFlfjUKwJMUy/uAJO0zYKqChGAK3M7sjAXcn2mqzcZ9r+ymLul97BgGK0zrDyOa6tMndDLadh4F5nh7ZUE6isNyVD/YvA= Received: by 10.54.41.55 with SMTP id o55mr6499671wro; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.111.17 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46059ce1050829111513a9cdcb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:15:17 -0400 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles In-Reply-To: <1125339012.5545.7.camel@localhost> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <28B2A791-A149-4B58-86D8-8DD349D081E5@gentoo.org> <1125331147.1964.100.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1125339012.5545.7.camel@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7TIDJ0M019408 X-Archives-Salt: 40856272-64bf-4655-89a8-11801ed3878f X-Archives-Hash: e1d57140f7c22324e534440b7dd30f44 If it was an extra ebuild, the profiles directory would need to exist outside of /usr/portage, would it not? This to prevent it from being blown up at next sync. On 8/29/05, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:59 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > 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. > Just a crazy idea - why not create a package containing some profiles? > You can use the default profile, and if you want a different profile, > "emerge portage-profiles" or whatever it is called and use that. I guess > I've missed something obvious here? > > 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. > which are not much work if kde = desktop -gtk -gnome +kde > > > 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. > Or provide them in an extra ebuild that throws lots of warnings so that any users that don't read the warnings can be RESOLVED WONTFIXed? > > -- > Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDE0+EqER3hOUoZM4RAoExAJ9vJH9lSOug5o8gVYljtNewLucYnwCcCgL5 > uBwy5L+fKeOF2nw/YzyfjSM= > =WwNl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list