July 20, 2018 2:55 PM, "Rich Freeman" <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:39 AM <n...@troglodyte.be> wrote: > >> Why not introducing a new level in the hierarchy ? Something like "common" >> could be fit. >> >> default/linux/amd64/13.0 >> default/linux/amd64/13.0/common >> default/linux/amd64/13.0/common/desktop >> default/linux/amd64/13.0/common/developer >> ... >> >> By doing so we could still have a bare profiles with minimal things set to >> work, and have the >> common subset with sane defaults for most users. > > I think one of the issues is that our docs/defaults and the mentality > of our users tends to drive them to what looks like the most basic > starting point. > > I think that having a base profile intended just as an inheritance > point for other profiles makes sense technically, but it may not > actually be a good default for end-users. > > If you set up the example above, how many would would still pick 13.0 > as their starting point, and not common? > > Now, there is nothing that says that inheritance has to follow the > directory tree. We could have a > default/linux/amd64/13.0/donotuse/core profile that everything > inherits, and make that the minimal one. It just means that most > profiles under 13.0 wouldn't inherit 13.0. > > To some degree we may have painted ourselves into a bit of a corner by > presenting this as a heirarchy, as it tends to force the bottom of the > heirarchy to be the best profile for inheritance, when it is also the > first thing users see as well. I’m not sure I was clear enough in what 13.0 would mean : basically, its current content would be delegated to common, and 13.0 would keep only things needed to have minimal breakages/conflicts. And we would keep the current directory-like inheritance. Then about what is presented to users and how they choose it : we could adapt eselect-profile to hilight some suggested defaults by use-case and people who still want to pick the minimalist one can do so freely, as they are probably doing it right now anyway. -- Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
