From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:28:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_kvk+CRwN_JOTFL4W+3U=Yf2mvPTW8oyJpeozsydww_XA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201210150022.51254.vapier@gentoo.org>
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> sounds like we should extend the profiles.desc file or profile structure to
> include a description so that people know the intention of each one. the only
> marker we had before was implicitly in the name (".../server" and
> ".../desktop").
++
This seems like a common problem I run into with software at work.
Everybody knows what the purpose of the application is, the problem is
that no two people agree on it.
Defining the reason something exists usually makes everything else
fairly obvious.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-15 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-11 18:56 [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc Ben Kohler
2012-10-11 19:03 ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-11 19:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-10-11 19:29 ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-11 20:04 ` Walter Dnes
2012-10-11 22:22 ` Gregory M. Turner
2012-10-11 22:31 ` Ben Kohler
2012-10-12 11:43 ` Gregory M. Turner
2012-10-12 8:10 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-12 8:08 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-12 8:18 ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-12 9:11 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-12 13:53 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-10-12 14:13 ` Ben Kohler
2012-10-12 14:29 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2012-10-14 10:00 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-14 15:42 ` Ben Kohler
2012-10-14 19:54 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-15 4:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-10-15 11:28 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2012-10-15 15:20 ` Zac Medico
2012-10-15 17:45 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-10-30 8:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-10-17 15:06 ` Ben Kohler
2012-10-18 0:37 ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-18 8:34 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-12 12:46 ` Sergey Popov
2012-10-12 13:36 ` Rich Freeman
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