[gentoo-releng] Profile Reorganization

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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Alright, I've had this idea for ways to reorganize the profiles for some
time now.  I figured now would be as good a time as any to introduce it
here, since we probably do more profile work than anyone else.  Once
we've got a decent idea hashed out, we can GLEP it and make the changes
in the tree.

Basically, it is a reorganization of the profiles to make more sense.

Profiles would consist of:

$type/$kernel/$userland/$arch/($version)

Now, type would be the main type of profile.  To match with what we have
now, we would have "default" which is the default release profile,
"hardened" and "uclibc".  We would keep the "base" profile, where the
globally-affecting things would remain.  The kernel would be the kernel
in use.  I believe that currently, we would have "linux", "darwin", and
"freebsd".  The userland would be "gnu" or "bsd".  Of course, arch is
pretty obvious.  Everything below arch would be optional profiles.  For
Release Engineering, this would be where we would put our versioned
release profiles, along with any other sub-profiles.

All that this really accomplishes it a bit of cleanup of the profiles,
but also allows for greater support of more interesting profiles, such
as a hardened Linux profile with a BSD userland on Alpha.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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