Hi, everyone. I've written a short proposal that aims to provide basic infrastructure for defining mix-in profiles in Gentoo. I've tried to keep it simple, and backwards compatible. The main goal is to be able to start defining some mix-ins without having to reinvent the whole profile tree.
Most important points: 1. Mix-ins are applied on top of base profile (which works the same as before), 2. Mix-ins are supported via 'eselect profile' replacing /etc/portage/make.profile symlink with a directory, without need for Portage patching (this is how Funtoo does it), 3. Most important mix-ins are used to construct base profiles which provides both backwards compatibility and proper targets for repoman (to avoid having to check all possible mix-in combinations). Complete text: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Mix-ins Please review. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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