On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:37 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:03, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:34:28 +0200 > > > > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Requiring duplication of profiles for every package manager. > > > > It requires duplicating nothing. This is exactly why we have cascading > > profiles. > > Cascading profiles form a tree with N nodes. Some of these nodes are > abstract in the sense that they are not directly usable. Say that leaves > M possible profiles. To have paludis be on par with portage, each of > these M profiles would have a leaf added for paludis. The same holds for > pkgcore and for any other package manager. This would mean that we have > N+2M profiles. With a paludis and pkgcore toplevel profile this would > even be worse and amount to approximately 3N profiles. > > In the leaf version, all M paludis specific profiles are equal.
But Paludis supports multiple inheritance. Would it be feasible to have Paludis users create /etc/make.profile as a directory, with /etc/make.profile/parent inheriting from both their chosen gentoo-x86 profile and a profile in the paludis tree? (I guess this looks like offering a technical solution to a political problem... sorry about that.) Ed -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
