Hey Ruud,
Ruud Koolen <[email protected]> writes:
> I hereby christen the two variants of gentoo prefix "prefix guest" for the
> variant that has nongentoo include and library search paths and a nongentoo
> dynamic linker; and "prefix standalone" for which the dynamic linker and all
> search paths are strictly inside the prefix installation.
Fine with me.
> I will introduce a single new USE flag, masked in nonprefix profiles
> and forced in prefix guest profiles, "prefix-guest"; this USE flag
> with codify exactly the two properties specified above. I have decided
> not to use a second USE flag for the alternative after all; a look
> through the tree has shown that this would be useful at exactly one
> place (toolchain.eclass) and nowhere else, and at that point it's just
> a waste of complexity.
Fine with me.
> I will not use a USE_EXPAND variable, because there isn't really a
> (relevant) single setting that can take on multiple values across
> different prefix variants; rather, there is just the single deviation
> from normal gentoo system setups which may or may not apply to a given
> prefix variant, so a simple USE flag saying "this 'feature' is in
> effect" is the appropriate tool for the job.
Fine with me, too.
> I will create profiles
> default/linux/$arch/13.0/prefix/{guest,standalone}, of which the first
> is a link to prefix/linux/$arch and the second is the new profile to
> be written. I will not for now name either the "default" prefix
> profile on linux archs per the name default/linux/$arch/13.0/prefix,
> as I think that choice is best delayed until after we have more
> experience with how well the two variants work in practice; naming one
> the default is easy, but changing this decision later on is hard
> without breaking compatibility. Thus, for now
> default/linux/$arch/13.0/prefix will stay empty.
> I will create a common base for the two variant profiles in features/prefix,
> with both variant profiles inheriting it. After all, the majority of profile
> hacks in the current prefix profiles would apply in full force in
> prefix-standalone.
To rephrase, put the greatest common divisor of {guest,standalone} to
features/prefix, with default/linux/$arch/13.0/prefix inheriting it.
> Unless there are any complaints, I'm planning to make all this a reality in a
> few days.
Great! Let's stick to this plan and get it DONE.
Cheers,
Benda
