Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release

[Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org>]

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John Davis wrote:

| Having GRP that is built with the defaults presented in the system
| profile for critical packages is something that we should strive for. If
| we make it very explicit that we *will* not offer support for cases when
| this GRP was used on a non-default (default meaning they have not
| modfied the profile use settings, cflags, etc), then I do not see the
| problem. We have to keep in mind that users are NOT developers - they
| don't do to their systems what we do to ours. To most users, vanilla
| gentoo is just fine. If they decide that it is not, they discontinue use
| of the GRP and simply emerge everything from source.

By this time i may have had more than enough drinks, but wouldn't it be
useful to handle a separate GRP profile? (or cascading profile).
I mean, the basic profiles are skinny USE-wise and we (i) don't want to
get them hogged... some source-building users mostly want to add stuff
rather than remove, and it's logical. We should add some extras for GRPs
somehow so they can get some goodies/features they lack because of the
USE flags.
Some simple examples could be "alsa", "ldap" or "ipv6".
Just my $.02
Best regards.

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Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC & HPPA moncho
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