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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
<zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 07/02/2014 03:07 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how to get from here to there.  The problem isn't just
>> constructing an alternative profile tree.  We could even have
>> /usr/portage/profiles-r2 and switch between the two on demand.  The
>> problem is there's a lot of memory with flags and masks and these only
>> make sense in the context of the current stacking profiles.
>> Disentangling this information and bringing it over to profiles-r2 is
>> going to be work.
>>
> I agree entirely.  Right now the mixin style profiles are not supported
> in gentoo _at_all_, and if no one ever works on that, then we will never
> support it.  I will work on the first step in a long road, that's all
> I'm talking about here.

I agree.  I think getting support in all the tools for multiple
profiles is a good start.  Volunteers can then begin working on
profiles that dis-entangle things.

A first step might be to just rip out the desktop/etc categories,
leaving the mess of arch/hardened/kernel/etc.  Then we try to keep
peeling back the layers.  We don't have to get there in one step, nor
do we have to release anything to the general public before it is
finished.

We might not end up with completely flat profiles - the goal is to end
up in a better place than we are now, and perhaps we can make more
progress later.

Rich