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 E0D41138727 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 745A3E0AAE; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92111E0A9E for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [2.221.35.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hwoarang) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 603DF33F67E for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52E3BDB3.6030300@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:35:47 +0000 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 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] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy References: <201401200223.24912.vapier@gentoo.org> <20140120172613.GA6121@laptop.home> <201401220158.05090.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201401220158.05090.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9cd3f3de-f9cb-494b-8fd7-c789ce00622b X-Archives-Hash: 428a1c9b407f44310b84884eb13a4973 On 01/22/2014 06:58 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 20 January 2014 12:26:13 William Hubbs wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in the one >>> place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc. >> >> If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in this >> file? > > maybe. devmanual doesn't talk about this file at all atm. > > or maybe i still have it in my head that devmanual.g.o is the ad-hoc > documentation and not a policy manual -- policy lives in the Gentoo Developer > Handbook. The handbook has not been updated for a good number of years therefore I am moving bits from it to devmanual whenever I have the time. -- Regards, Markos Chandras