On Sat, 2 May 2015 05:53:57 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:28:52 -0400 > > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Due to popular demand, I have added a basic systemd profile for > >> amd64: > > > > what about we start telling people /etc/make.profile can be a dir > > and that you can fill the 'parent' file in there just as well as > > you ln -s it ? > > That is the whole mix-in concept. In order to make that work we'd > really need to work towards it. You can't inherit profiles in > arbitrary order. If you want something like mix-ins you really need > to split profiles up into certain classes and define rules about which > ones are used for what. Then they won't be stepping on each other's > toes. Rules that make that work are simple, but instead, we seem to be heading towards '# of arches * # of DEs * # of init systems * # of gentoo releases * # of ABIs * # of libcs' profiles. Most of them being just about a 'parent' file, and thus, I hope, following the good practices :) Alexis.
