On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 01:16 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > One user wants Gnome, the other wants Plasma. Is this doable? > > Currently, Plasma is installed, and the profile is: > > default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd > > The profiles seem to be either-or. There's one for plasma, one for > gnome. But I need both now :-/
They just provide ease of installation by enabling some USE flags globally or per-package for you, to avoid having to add them manually on a fresh install or so. You can create a local mix-in by having /etc/portage/make.profile as a directory with an eapi and parent file, but that has some caveats, so given that I leave the details to find out elsewhere when desired. Or you can just use one and add the stuff for the other manually, verbatim or as-needed. What they do can be seen in profiles/targets/desktop/gnome profiles/targets/desktop/plasma subdirectories of your PORTDIR (probably /usr/portage/) The global USE flags each adds are in make.defaults file and the per- package USE flag tweaks are in package.use files. So you could for example keep using the systemd plasma profile, add the global USE flags from /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/make.defaults to your make.conf and symlink /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/package.use to a gnome.use file under /etc/portage/package.use/ directory or so and voilà, you got effectively both.
