Am Mittwoch 25 Juni 2014, 15:11:40 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Long story short, doing anything to Gentoo profiles is utter pain > > and comes with random breakage guarantee. Therefore, I'm asking -- nuke > > those damn profiles, and start over! The current situation is > > completely unmaintainable. > > ++ > > But, would it make sense to just go the Funtoo route with "mix-ins." > Basically instead of symlinking make.profile to a profile directory > they turn make.profile into an actual profile which just has a parent > that inherits all the real profiles, and eselect is designed to handle > it. > > That would get rid of the 47 permutations in our current tree. It > would also reduce the barrier to adding more options, since it means > adding one subdir that only affects those who use/maintain it, and not > 23 combinations that drive everybody mad.
++ this is what we've been just discussing on the irc channel -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council
