On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 05:01 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > What I'm advocating is that the '05 profile (fex) tag in the defaults > for that profile release, desktop/server agnostic, *system* > defaults, eg toolchain, pam, nptl, etc. The subprofile the user > chooses (the desktop or server target) building upon those base > settngs. > > Multiple inherits for profiles is the main reason I'm not pushing on > this; shifting desktop cruft out of the bases (my definition of base > mind you) requires pulling from (fex) x86/2005.1 + desktop/2005.1 .
Currently, the versioned profiles match what we use for building the release. The 2005.1 profile is the USE flags used to build the 2005.1 release. This makes complete sense to me and is the way it has been done in the past. Making the changes that you propose would require a 2005.1/desktop profile to be used for building GRP. The problem with this is it would also require that the same profile be used for building the stages. Basically, you've taken then 2005.1 profile and made it useless, since the stages weren't built against it anyway. My point is pretty simple, why should we spend a bunch of time maintaining something that is designed from the start to be customized, and most likely won't even be used anyway? I would much rather stick with the "2005.1" profile meaning "what we used to build 2005.1" than having it mean "some variation of 2005.1 is below here and using this profile is minimal and likely won't do what you expect". -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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