On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <zeroch...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The funtoo mixin system has absolutely nothing to do with adding > packages to stage3 that are not in @system. > > Primarily adding packages to stage3 (or stage4 if we choose to call it > that) would only need us to agree on the packages.default bug: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393445 > >... > No, we can move those arguments to if things belong in packages.default :-) >
Well, yes and no. Mixins would allow us to have more than one packages.default as well. The point is that rather than arguing over one configuration and what goes in and out, we can have 47 different configurations that aren't hard to maintain and everybody can have their own idea of what goes in and out. Plus, those configurations will probably make sense since instead of "server" we might have "postfix server" or "LAMP box" and so on. Nobody argues with having systemd in the Gnome3 desktop profile (well, at least not with Gentoo's role in putting it there), because in that context it makes sense, while putting it in the default profile would be a highly controversial matter. Choice is a way to get around arguments like this. -- Rich
