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 F31F313877A for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F12AE0ABA; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de (rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de [194.94.155.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2703DE0AA7 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C710A45662 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:02:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kailua.localnet (pc1011302446.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.96.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: hua59129) by rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C24D345648 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:02:20 +0200 (CEST) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making a common sub-profile for no-multilib Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:01:21 +0200 Message-ID: <7201525.QuAkliyKH2@kailua> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.2 (Linux/3.10.32-gentoo; KDE/4.13.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <53AB007C.5070306@gentoo.org> <20140625204457.6d6ed82b@pomiot.lan> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: cc56e8e3-f152-49f0-81da-ba695ff4d0ef X-Archives-Hash: c1c2afa290b3175938b74030972403c0 Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny 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. >=20 > ++ >=20 > 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 handl= e > it. >=20 > 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 no= t > 23 combinations that drive everybody mad. ++ this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel --=20 Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council