On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think Brian mentioned /etc/portage/profile and other fun portage tricks > to mess with the default profile. If you think the profile shouldn't be > changed then don't make it a mutable option. If you think that bugs > where people fubared their profile are a problem then write a tool to > print out that information and have the user present it to you when they > file the bug.
What? I was saying that *we* shouldn't have to waste *our* time making profiles we won't use. End of discussion. If you want a "warner6-wuz-here" profile under default-linux/x86 that turned off all the USE flags and only enabled USE="yes-I-really-only-want-this-one-USE" then you could. We won't stop you, nor will we care to stop you. We wouldn't even complain. > As far as maintainability, you could always make a profile outside of the > default-linux tree ( default-gentoo/* ) and construct the > smaller/faster/better profiles there. That means anyone that wants to No. *I* could not because *I* think it is a waste of time. I care about exactly one profile, in honesty, the one I use to build the release. If there were 10,000 other profiles, I wouldn't care. That being said, I wouldn't want anyone changing the profile I used to build the release. If I do a stage3 today and a stage3 tomorrow, both using the same profile, then do an "emerge gnome" on each, I would expect it to have the same USE flags. This is a simple matter of reproducibility and predictability. > customize can change the symlink and you ( releng ) still get your > pristine release profiles ( which IMHO is a silly notion, but I don't > manage your bugs, so whichever way you like ;) ). Going on that notion, I am really shooting for predictability with the profiles that are managed by releng. > you could also do default-linux/x86/2005.1/release or whatnot if you want > to maintain that as well. Why? Would you not expect the 2005.1 Handbook plus the 2005.1 media plus the 2005.1 profile to produce a 2005.1 system? Why would I need a "release" sub-profile to distinguish it as a release? Is that not completely redundant? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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