On 08/08/2013 12:11 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:57:37 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo going forward. >>> >>> We need to come up with a solution similar to the above to avoid >>> this... >> >> This is called a 'profile'. >> >> You can have systemd and openrc profiles, and then able to mask >> specific packages... > > That's an interesting solution. Though, I wonder if it constitutes as > use or as misuse of profiles as we haven't thought this out; also, I > wonder how different people's stance is over having profiles like this.
This seems like a possible applicatio for "mix-in" profiles like Funtoo uses: http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Flavors_and_Mix-ins -- Thanks, Zac
