On 07/03/2014 03:00, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > On 07/03/2014 08:18 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> On 07/02/2014 13:54, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Dnia 2014-07-02, o godz. 10:44:16 >> [snip] >>> >>> 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... >>> >> >> I am going to throw this out there and see what people think. Maybe it's >> insane, maybe it's not, maybe it's a mix of insane and not-insane. >> >> Years ago, before we had the current stacking profile design (we were >> discussing the current design, actually), I kinda conjured up this "building >> blocks" like approach for a profile design. > >> The idea being that, in /etc/make.conf (or wherever that file is now), you'd >> define $PROFILE like this: >> >> linux-mips o32 uclibc server: >> PROFILE="base:kernel/linux:arch/mips:subarch/mips-o32:libc/uclibc:roles/server:releases/13.0" > > What about making /etc/portage/make.profile a directory rather than a symlink, > having /etc/portage/make.profile/parent to reference all the flavours? > > Tools that need to respect the /current/ profile should work without any > change, and > tools that need to respect the /available/ profiles (repoman) already do have > a list > of profiles to respect (profiles/profiles.desc). > > So the only missing thing would be the eselect profile module to manage > entries of > /etc/portage/make.profile/parent, maybe using > /usr/portage/profiles/profiles.desc > as the source for available flavours. > > my 2 cents > /haubi/
That's the thing, make.profile technically *is* a directory -- a symlink to one. The original design of make.profile was to specify generic, base settings for a given profile and keep that in the tree. Things like default CHOST, default ARCH, default <VARIABLE>, etc. make.conf then overrides in-tree settings with settings specific to your system. So making /etc/make.profile an actual directory disconnects it from the tree, which I don't think will work very well for Portage, since it won't know what your currently-chosen profile is. -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
