On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:36:32 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Chris Gianelloni wrote: | [snip] | > This means it is now 36 profiles to support, if we dropped support | > on all profiles except for the new ones. Without having any sort of | > multiple inheritance available, this is really unmanageable. | | This is exactly the same reason why amd64 won't move to a per CPU | subprofile. it might be a good idea for ppc, but not for us.
I believe all discussion on CPU subprofiles has started with "if we had multiple profile support then". Would the situation be any different if it were just a case of telling Portage to use base/default-linux/x86/2008.1 + extras/x86/cpu/pentium4? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
