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* Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy
  @ 2014-01-20 18:54 99%     ` William Hubbs
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From: William Hubbs @ 2014-01-20 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:18:46PM +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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> On 20/01/14 18:26, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in
> >> the one place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc.
> > If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in 
> > this file?
> profiles.desc is installed on a user's system. Users don't read the
> dev manual.

All policies are being documented in the dev manual, so I was just
saying that I think this should go there if it is going to be official.

Whether or not it is in a local file (on the users' system) isn't
relevant, developers should be familiar with the dev manual.

William


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