-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/2014 02:10 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I don't feel like we ought to vote on something like this without >> understanding most of the current profiles. And I'm afraid there are >> only few people who have any idea about the current profile >> structure... > > No argument there. > > We may very well still end up with something hierarchical, but we can > at least limit that to the parts of the profile where it matters. > Maybe x86/BSD and amd64/Linux and amd64/Linux-hardened need to be > interdependent. However, that still gets rid of need to deal with > desktop environments, init systems, arguments over what belongs in > @system, and so on. We could have a blocker mechanism to keep people > from mixing systemd with BSD, or we could just let people shoot > themselves in the foot. > > Sounds like a good time to start reverse engineering the profiles... > I've talked to the funtoo devs a few times about stealing their profile idea. A few things need to be done to make this happen, mainly eselect, catalyst, and repoman support. I can do the eselect and catalyst changes myself, however, I'll require some help for the repoman support most likely. I'll prototype this locally, see what I can make work, and then see about making it usable for others to test.
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