On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:30 -0500, Kito wrote: > > So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? > > Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades > for what they seem to be made for.
As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work necessary in maintaining them. As it was back then, it required changes to an extremely large number of profiles every time a change was made to the default USE flags. I honestly don't think it would be a good idea to forget the lessons of the past and start bloating the profiles with tons of "desktop" and "server" profiles, among anything else people would want. After all, as soon as we did a "desktop" profile, then we would have requests for "gnome" and "kde" sub-profiles. As I stated earlier, it's easier to not provide *any* than to try to provide all of the ones that will inevitably be requested as soon as we start adding them. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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