On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:50:58PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 08:04 pm, Brian Harring wrote: > > Again, returning to the USE="-*" arguement, yes, they can go that > > route. It's also kind of a crappy arguement dodging out of the fact that > > progressive bloat going into what is effectively a base release > > profile, when subprofiles would be better suited. > > not sure what you mean by 'progressive bloat' ... most of those flags have > been there since before i was a dev (so like before the 1.2 release) > > the default profile has always been a 'desktop' target and really i think > that's OK by me Reasons against sticking a level of indirection in? More then willing to assume I've been a tool and missed it, but with cascaded profiles there really isn't a good arguement against tagging a level in so that anyone after it can just use minimal, or derive a server profile off of it. ~harring
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