Re: [gentoo-dev] new profile layout with flavors and mix-ins

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 07/02/14 14:41, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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> On 07/02/2014 02:10 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> I don't feel like we ought to vote on something like this without
>>> understanding most of the current profiles. And I'm afraid there are
>>> only few people who have any idea about the current profile
>>> structure...
>> No argument there.
>>
>> We may very well still end up with something hierarchical, but we can
>> at least limit that to the parts of the profile where it matters.
>> Maybe x86/BSD and amd64/Linux and amd64/Linux-hardened need to be
>> interdependent.  However, that still gets rid of need to deal with
>> desktop environments, init systems, arguments over what belongs in
>> @system, and so on.  We could have a blocker mechanism to keep people
>> from mixing systemd with BSD, or we could just let people shoot
>> themselves in the foot.
>>
>> Sounds like a good time to start reverse engineering the profiles...
>>
> I've talked to the funtoo devs a few times about stealing their profile
> idea.  A few things need to be done to make this happen, mainly eselect,
> catalyst, and repoman support.  I can do the eselect and catalyst
> changes myself, however, I'll require some help for the repoman support
> most likely.  I'll prototype this locally, see what I can make work, and
> then see about making it usable for others to test.
>
> - -Zero
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I don't know how to get from here to there.  The problem isn't just 
constructing an alternative profile tree.  We could even have 
/usr/portage/profiles-r2 and switch between the two on demand.  The 
problem is there's a lot of memory with flags and masks and these only 
make sense in the context of the current stacking profiles. 
Disentangling this information and bringing it over to profiles-r2 is 
going to be work.

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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