On 10/15/2015 02:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Given the goals, having catalyst seed /var/lib/portage/world seems >> pretty reasonable to me. > > Then the question becomes how. Does it diff @profile between the two > profiles and put the extra stuff in @selected? Or, does the profile > just contain a special file containing the stuff that gets seeded? > That is really the gist of the two approaches, and if you just have a > special file full of stuff that gets seeded you really don't need > another profile, which is nice since profiles are a PITA right now. >
We already have packages.build which is used to build stage1, so introducing a packages.stage3 that's used to seed @selected (aka /var/lib/portage/world) for stage3 seems reasonable. -- Thanks, Zac
