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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Andreas K. Huettel
<dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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."
> ++
>
> this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel

So, not wanting this to die on the vine.

If we did the mix-in approach, would we just follow the example of Funtoo?

They use an arch profile, a stability profile (~arch vs arch), a
"flavor" profile (core, minimal, desktop), and then users can layer as
much other stuff on top of that as they want (gnome, kde, multimedia,
etc).

Do we want to do things the same way?

Some things to think about include multilib (just another arch?),
systemd, and usr-merge.  I'm not saying that we need to implement any
of that stuff completely - but when planning the profile layout we
should at least consider whether it will handle things like this in
the future.  Should some types of profiles be only additive?  Etc...

Rich