On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 06:00:25PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> A progressive system should be able to use ppc-macos ebuilds. But, if the 
> ppc-macos people only want to support a pure Apple root domain (the one 
> with prefix /), then progressive work cannot come under alt/macos, and has 
> to be a seperate alt/darwin project with its own "ppc-darwin" keyword.

Sounds like it...

> IMHO trying to define progressive or conservative would be futile until we 
> get to play with the portage rewrite (domains and prefixes).

Not completely agree on this.  It's nice for me to know what the others
consider 'progressive' to mean, as I now see it as a "shut-up with your
collision-protect crap and just do it" profile, which I am for sure not
interested in, nor see the use of at the moment.  I like to see the big
picture of things where possible.

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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead
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