Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
you proposing we rearchitect it all or just for testing purposes before going
live ? i can see both ...
I am proposing rethinking all of it. My current thoughts run something
like this:
arch/amd64
arch/ppc (not ppc/ppc64 or ppc/ppc32)
base
default/linux
default/freebsd
default/macos
kernel/darwin
kernel/linux
kernel/freebsd
release/2007.1
target/desktop
target/server
userland (these aren't all the same type of thing)
userland/32-bit
userland/64-bit
userland/multilib
userland/freebsd
userland/hardened
userland/linux (this could be glibc, instead)
userland/macos
userland/no-nptl (not sure we really need this, at all)
userland/nptl (this either)
userland/selinux
userland/uclibc
Of course, this is just my rough outline. What you would end up with,
as a profile, is something like this:
default/linux/amd64/2007.1/desktop (not much different from now)
I kinda thought up a system like this long ago, but it was more in line with
node-based profiles. And wou;d've required gutting the current profile code in
portage entirely. The idea being that, you construct the profile up in nodes
from the top level (much like one does their PATH variable), and the profiles
would be re-arranged into things like arch/, libc/, kernel/, etc.. In a way, I
re-organized mips' 2007.1-dev profiles to quasi reflect how we'd look in such a
layout.
But I like this idea -- it goes halfway towards nodes to some extent (at least
lines things up for nodes or some other implementation that maybe treats parents
better).
antarus even had a small draft document up on it that's better in detail:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/essays/mixin-profiles.txt
(later on, it was decided that there would have to be a pre-defined order for
the first four nodes: base:arch:kernel:userland, and these first four nodes
could not repeat. Everything thereon after was swappable and allowed to be
placed in any order, such as base:mips:linux:glibc:ip30:o32 (where o32/ip30 can
be swapped around))
But I definitely see this as a 2008.0 thing at the earliest. I also see no
problem with mips joining in on the fun to play with things either!
--Kumba
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