On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 11:40, Jason Huebel wrote: > On Friday 20 August 2004 10:09 am, John Davis wrote: > > OK - > > I am going to try and make sense of all of the good discussion here by > > putting it into a draft proposal. From what I have gleaned off of the > > thread, this is the implementation that we are looking for regarding > > general profile policy: > > > > Profiles will adhere to the following layout standard: > > default-linux/$arch/20xx > > default-linux/$arch/20xx-r1 > > default-linux/$arch/20xx-r2 > > (and so forth) > > > > Each year, a new profile has to be created (20xx). Each subsequent major > > revision to the 20xx profile will be marked as -rx, where x is the > > revision number. > > > > The top level arch directory (default-linux/$arch) will contain a > > ChangeLog that will serve as a record log for each profile revision and > > change. > > > > How does that sound? Am I missing anything? > > Looks good to me. Quick (slightly OT) question: Is there any limit on the > directory depth of a cascading profile? IIRC, there is not, but you would have to check w/ carpaski to be 100% sure. Cheers, -- John Davis Gentoo Linux Developer ---- GnuPG Public Key: Fingerprint: 4F9E 41F6 D072 5C1A 636C 2D46 B92C 4823 E281 41BB