Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Profile listings

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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> I do understand now why you cannot (usually) change profiles; the profile
> system is a mess and really needs a whole new overall design. That's why we
> still have '13' in the profiles even though it's 2015. The entire gentoo
> profile system is  showing it's age and evolutionary problems, imho. I not
> saying I'm taking on that  brood of hornets, but just a few select
> migrations from embedded to minimal. 

Yes it needs some bigger overhaul, there's more or less agreement on it. Unfortunately that is also a big amount of work, and needs a lot of planning. So it won't happen overnight...

That said... Changing profile on your local machine is not a big deal usually. And there just has not been the need for a new profile tree in the meantime. (BTW, before 13 was 10, but that didnt get its name from 2010...)


> Note {embedded << minimal << default}  I still have some vintage gentoo
> systems running which have very few flags set and include (USE="-*") in
> make.conf.  And a {state-machine/executive/rtos << embedded(linux)}, 
> just so we are on the same page.

Would be interesting to know what you mean exactly by "minimal" (there is no such profile) and "embedded". 


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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