On 24/01/17 17:20, Jason Zaman wrote: > This is awesome! thanks for working on it, ive wanted it for a while > now. > > The main issue I see with it is ordering. For the hardened and selinux > profiles, the order matters a lot. eg hardened defaults the jit useflag > off and the desktop profile defaults on which causes problems with PaX. > If these two mixins would end up in a kind of random order then we'll > have issues. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/492312 for a specific issue. > > It could be as simple as when putting in the make.profile list, do it in > the order they are defined in the profiles.mixin file, then we can just > have hardened and selinux last and problem solved. Or could go with a > priority field but then again there is the problem of what happens when > two have the same priority? > > Also how will profiles.mixin interact between different overlays? you > can manually set a parents file with features/desktop::gentoo and > feature/foo::overlay already. if foo::myoverlay is in the desktop group, > does that merge together with the desktop group ones in ::gentoo? > > -- Jason > Here's one suggestion .. how about we use a system similar to the old init naming scheme of:
[<char>]<2-digit><name> where the 2-digit defines the first-order sorting, and then by alphabetical thereafter? Just a random idea...
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