-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/2014 03:07 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 07/02/14 14:41, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> -----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. >> >> - -Zero >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > > I don't know how to get from here to there. The problem isn't just > constructing an alternative profile tree. We could even have > /usr/portage/profiles-r2 and switch between the two on demand. The > problem is there's a lot of memory with flags and masks and these only > make sense in the context of the current stacking profiles. > Disentangling this information and bringing it over to profiles-r2 is > going to be work. > I agree entirely. Right now the mixin style profiles are not supported in gentoo _at_all_, and if no one ever works on that, then we will never support it. I will work on the first step in a long road, that's all I'm talking about here.
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