From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QLHIF-0006vB-Td for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:02:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 641C21C065; Sat, 14 May 2011 15:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BC21C065 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 15:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3384943wyi.40 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=TDHmcmDcMt0hdRaz4oK9dMmzoJGUHTryUsED137JJoo=; b=cuW4YtHT732e4AxsgUGSxlyOTpVRkaBUKS1WR/my2BbyXmZp/Wb288qtwQ2DkTgT9I gDlMZKE/bAPFLG7Agbbr6RUpKchxbiaXoScD5mOaVgXGbOzBwShIvZHQS5xWnd72bP0U YYWlGF5HdLSyasXWBTb+E06eTRPWonJM1Wrmo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=iH6MmfLbYAsCk4ezFEaM6u9P2jOgXk4BV0aaPU+BkOTz4EcWvxqFAj/+35Am0sOwt0 SJNB59Rbcz4t5zb5NZHeYOe6JqfvteGM4nNc0N4gfbixA1sYfWw1iA/XvzH/iZKCJKgA 64/XZljDQZmXwlA+wWsWIAvQezWqRuGGrSji0= Received: by 10.216.237.102 with SMTP id x80mr670539weq.111.1305388775310; Sat, 14 May 2011 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p36sm450089weq.33.2011.05.14.08.59.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 May 2011 08:59:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:58:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Alan Mackenzie References: <20110514103109.GA3053@acm.acm> <201105141251.14810.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110514141223.GB3053@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20110514141223.GB3053@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105141758.46893.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fc06e1c9e68064150990d89471e352d5 Apparently, though unproven, at 16:12 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: > > The specific files that define the system set are called "packages" > > OK. Some of these directories have got three parents. ;-) The people > deciding what goes into the "packages"es must have very steady hands. hehehe :-) That just means that that part of the profile has three completely different aspects to it. Think of it this way (sucked out of my thumb, too lazy to cat through files right now): A desktop profile might want to inherit it's config from the amd64 testing kde profiles. This make sense, all three are completely different things and by and large won't have conflicting things in them. This saves the devs having to maintain 9 different profiles (all combinations of the above) and keep everything in sync. With cascading profiles they maintain three simple, easy to understand things that (seldom) go fubar -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com