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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

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...

Rich