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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:39:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:17 AM M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@iee.org> wrote:
>
> The hierarchy method is indeed flawed, it would be better to have
> something akin to USE flags for profiles (PROFLAGS?) .. so that you
> could mingle different aspects without replicating sections of the
> 'tree' to get the common configurations covered ..
>
> eg. LINUX + AMD64 + DEVELOPER + KDE
> LINUX + ARM + DESKTOP
> LINUX + X86 + CONTAINER
> FREEBSD + DESKTOP
>
> And then have some rules which say that .. eg. KDE inherits DESKTOP (if
> required)
>
> I know you're gonna bike-shed this to death, but its an idea ..

No need to bike-shed:

https://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Profiles
https://bugs.gentoo.org/523036


-- 
Rich