There was a thread a while back about mix-in support and I think there was genuine interest. For the most part we just need to do the work, and the first step is identifying blockers. If some end up involving PMS/etc then we may need to get the Council involved.
Rather than hijacking every @system change discussion with this, I created a tracker at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523036 If somebody beats me to it, feel free to dig through the past discussions and add blockers. I know updating eselect is necessary. I suspect portage will be fine if we just turn /etc/make/profile into a directory and have it inherit other profiles. Actually creating some mix-in profiles will need to be done, but probably not in the main tree until we have more of the blockers resolved. We also need to see how other package managers handle this, and work with them, possibly including a PMS change. I'd like to get to a point where we can all have our cakes and eat it too, and not have endless arguments about whether openssh or whatever belongs in @system. -- Rich
