On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:19 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > Should we add multiple inheritance support now? The changes > > necessary to add this support are minimal and we can have this > > feature in portage-2.1.2 [3], which I estimate will be ready for a > > final release in approximately 3 to 5 weeks. > > Are you proposing just adding the support or creating the new profiles as > well? > If it's just the support, adding it into portage now certainly won't hurt > anything (unless someone really fscks up the current single-parent cascaded > profiles in the tree) and is probably a good idea. > > If you're talking about putting together the new profiles now as well, is it > going to be a separate profile tree (much as default-linux/ was created for > cascaded profiles)? Will it be directly under profiles/? default-linux/?
I have a set of profiles already (to replace default-linux) that use default/linux as the base. It can live side-by-side with the current profiles quite easily. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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