Re: [gentoo-dev] Reorganizing handling of target specific profiles (Was: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review)

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:13:20PM +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:52 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
> > Hello
> > I have managed to split the desktop profile to gnome and kde submenus. The 
> > result can be found in kde-crazy overlay (not in layman) [1]
> 
> I think this whole approach of adding yet more subprofiles is highly
> suboptimal. You are wanting to add at least 28 more subprofiles (the
> number would reach the 80s if including hardened/mips, etc), whereas we
> just had a sort-of discussion on how we have too many of them already at
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_be393426980d12f341cabccfe5ab10aa.xml
> 
> Instead I think we should be improving "eselect profile" to support
> multiple inheriting /etc/make.profile files in a user friendly fashion,
> and in the end removing 249 subprofiles, instead of adding 28+.
Consider me to be a huge fan of this idea. I'm already using it with my
managed-portage "system" that I posted some months ago.

Beware that some of the non-Portage PMs don't behave quite right with it
yet. ferringb was working on fixing pkgcore with I had noted to him with
the profiles. I'm not sure about Paludis off the top of my head.

We'd be saving at least 655 inodes on disk (in an rsync copy of the
tree, add another 1k inodes for a CVS checkout).

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