From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5B9138010 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:21:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C41BB21C004; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFD3E0462 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1DEAF33C394 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <507C29B3.4000100@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:20:19 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20121012 Thunderbird/15.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc References: <201210150022.51254.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201210150022.51254.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6bf88b26-6dc6-415b-aa16-1715b5121982 X-Archives-Hash: f68ac7861ffc47f6c1e9d3b1799af4a7 On 10/14/2012 09:22 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > sounds like we should extend the profiles.desc file or profile structure to > include a description so that people know the intention of each one. the only > marker we had before was implicitly in the name (".../server" and > ".../desktop"). Maybe put a metadata.xml file in the profile directory. Then you can list the description, maintainer, and anything else you want in there. -- Thanks, Zac