On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:58:41 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Paludis supports multiple repositories correctly, right? So why is | it a big deal to provide the profiles in their own | overlay/repository? I haven't heard a good reason why the profiles | need to be in the portage tree. I'm not saying I am against it being | added so much as I haven't heard a single compelling reason for doing | it, and quite a few compelling reasons why *not* to do it, mainly | support-related.
We'd have to extend the parent file to support something like: $(location_of_repository_named gentoo)/profiles/default-linux/etc since a) profiles are per-repository and b) we don't want to copy the whole Gentoo profile structure. Now, whilst this change could be useful, it's going to cause a huge incompatibility with Portage... So unless someone can come up with a solution that won't... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
