Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Profiles [ was Environmental Whitelisting ]

[Alec Warner <warnera6@egr.msu.edu>]

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Brian Harring wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:36:03PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> 
>>I'm kinda with genone on implementing both ( since they are similar ).
>>If it's decided that blacklisting is easier to maintain, I can always
>>make up my own whitelist for pkg-foo and apply it and if it works submit
>>it as a bug ( or even some other whitelist database? ) and thus can
>>gaurentee that my package was built 'correctly'(TM).  I think this would
>>be important in fex, an enterprise distribution type deal where the
>>build env is important to some.  Put the whitelists in the tree and have
>>them --excluded by default, so only the users that use them have to
>>downlaod them.
> 
> Sticking Yet Another File In Profiles (hence forth known as yafip 
> since it comes up a lot :) is a quick fix, but forces anyone trying to 
> do remote repo's to add hacks to expose that information; effectively 
> requiring two querying modes for the repo, which doesn't seem clean.
> 
> If it goes anyways, profile would get my vote- base profile exists for 
> spreading settings like this throughout all profiles also; profile and 
> repo are seperated entities, as such the repo implementation doesn't 
> get muddied up, just requires extra keys pulled for profile 
> implementation, which is what it's designed for anyways.
> ~harring

Hijacking the thread for a moment, has anyone looked into the profiles
redesign/rewrite/  syndication from web -> storage, flatfiles -> DMBS,
etc...It will need to be abstracted just the same as everything
else...Or they should be ;)
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