Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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.
In general, it sounds like a good idea, but as far as i can see, it
would be
a for-the-user and by-the-user idea, but what about for the devs, it
doesn't look
like something easy to mantain.
Nevertheless, what if we can provide instead tools/docs to help users
with the task?,
so anyone willing to do it, could easily create his/her own sub-profiles
for kde/gnome/whatever ...
Just an idea :-]
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