Re: [gentoo-dev] New basic systemd profile

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:28:52 -0400
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> Due to popular demand, I have added a basic systemd profile for amd64:
>
> what about we start telling people /etc/make.profile can be a dir
> and that you can fill the 'parent' file in there just as well as you ln
> -s it ?

That is the whole mix-in concept.  In order to make that work we'd
really need to work towards it.  You can't inherit profiles in
arbitrary order.  If you want something like mix-ins you really need
to split profiles up into certain classes and define rules about which
ones are used for what.  Then they won't be stepping on each other's
toes.

But yes, you could probably get away with it in many cases without any
special support from the distro.

-- 
Rich