Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making a common sub-profile for no-multilib

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Long story short, doing anything to Gentoo profiles is utter pain
> > and comes with random breakage guarantee. Therefore, I'm asking -- nuke
> > those damn profiles, and start over! The current situation is
> > completely unmaintainable.
> 
> ++
> 
> But, would it make sense to just go the Funtoo route with "mix-ins."
> Basically instead of symlinking make.profile to a profile directory
> they turn make.profile into an actual profile which just has a parent
> that inherits all the real profiles, and eselect is designed to handle
> it.
> 
> That would get rid of the 47 permutations in our current tree.  It
> would also reduce the barrier to adding more options, since it means
> adding one subdir that only affects those who use/maintain it, and not
> 23 combinations that drive everybody mad.

++

this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel

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Andreas K. Huettel
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