On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 21:05 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 20:35 schrieb Gustavo Zacarias: > > Stephen Bennett wrote: > > > That's my proposal. The benefits I like to think are obvious. The > > > drawbacks are, as far as I can see, in tree size, which should be > > > minimal. Those concerned about local tree size can exclude it, and > > > for size on the mirrors it's trivial compared to the rest of the > > > tree. > > > > > > Comments? > > > > As long as it's outside the "stable" (200x.y) portage profiles i'm > > fine with it for SPARC. I think Ferris was testing paludis so i'm > > sure he can handle it. > > With respect to the "hey support omg!" comments i say stick a big fat > > README about being an experimental profile or something like that and > > that's it. Usually bug reports require "emerge --info" so it'll be > > easy to flag invalid ones anyway. > > [Disclaimer: I'm involved in paludis development and may be biased] > I talked with the other AMD64 leads about adding a paludis subprofile to > default-linux/amd64. Blubb said he'd rather have a global profile, > Kingtaco state to be neutral in regard to adding another amd64 > subprofile. I'd rather have a global profile, too. > > Summary: amd64 team can live with a paludis profile, we prefer to have a > global profile, though. > > > PS: > As a sidenote to people who test or play with paludis and find packages > that don't compile/install: Please don't file bugs with gentoo. Come to > #paludis and discuss with us. If we tell you to do so, file bugs with > [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are really interested to know which packages > don't work.
(Wearing my Release Engineering hat): I implore anyone planning on adding something like this to keep it *outside* of default-linux. A paludis/* set of profiles, much like hardened or uclibc, would be the best approach for this, if it ends up being accepted. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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