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

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 07/02/2014 03:07 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> 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.
> 
I agree entirely.  Right now the mixin style profiles are not supported
in gentoo _at_all_, and if no one ever works on that, then we will never
support it.  I will work on the first step in a long road, that's all
I'm talking about here.

Thanks,
Zero
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