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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT
  @ 2005-11-02 14:25 99% ` Chris Gianelloni
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From: Chris Gianelloni @ 2005-11-02 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:11 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> As I'd like to get sooner or later (better sooner) the profiles for 
> Gentoo/FreeBSD in main tree, I've synced the fake base profile in gentoo-alt 
> overlay with the one in the tree. Unfortunately there are things in base that 
> are linux-specific, so they, IMHO, should be moved in default-linux.

I'll agree with you that they should be moved, but there's also nothing
binding you to inheriting base.

> The attached patch is the proposed changes, they are mainly linux-specific 
> userland that does not work outside of Linux-based systems, but there are 
> also some GNU-specific packages like which that we don't use.

Perhaps a full patch that also places the changes into the proper
locations would be in order?

> I would have some other changes for virtuals, but they are less important 
> right now.

This is completely unnecessary as you can override any virtuals in your
profiles.

> Obviously if this is going to be applied the missing packages should be added 
> to the packages of default-linux and other linux profiles that does inherit 
> from base.
> 
> Comments?

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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