On 10/15/2015 01:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote: >> What's probably desired is to create a stage3 profile which adds >> whatever extra stuff you want to @system, and to use the stage3 profile >> for to build stage3. After the stage3 is built, catalyst could set some >> other profile if we don't want users to have the stage3 profile by default. > > Unless we seed @selected with the extra stuff, it will get removed the > first time the user runs --depclean, which probably isn't what we > want. > > I'm fine with going the multi-profile route, but it seems to me that > we still need some kind of initial @selected set. > > Basically the goal here is to give the user a bunch of useful stuff by > default (specified in some way in the profile), but make it easy for > the user to remove it if they wish. > > A side goal is to do this without adding 14 more profiles, because we > don't have mixins. >
Given the goals, having catalyst seed /var/lib/portage/world seems pretty reasonable to me. -- Thanks, Zac
