On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:42 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:22:34 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | In order to do this, selected profile specific flags should be > > | masked in the base profile and unmasked/forced in the specific > > | profiles which they apply to. The unmasking is necessary because > > | use.mask currently overrides use.force. USE flags suggested as > > | candidates for masking/forcing include all USE_EXPAND flags derived > > | from the USERLAND, KERNEL, and ELIBC variables. > > > > ...and ARCH, since it seems not all profiles mask all archs... > > > > Given the current single-inheritance profile structure and the way > that many leaf profiles define an ARCH that is different from their > parent profile, it will require ARCH masking/forcing in > approximately 80 different individual profiles. I'm not sure if > it's really worth it. When we start using multiple-inheritance, we > can define ARCH specific profiles that those 80 different individual > profiles can inherit their ARCH masking/forcing from.
We're (Release Engineering) trying to "use" them now. Since I took the 2007.0 snapshot, I have been working on replacing all of the 2007.0 profiles into a multi-parent version of said profiles. This includes all of the required parents, such as base/default-linux/etc. While we aren't planning on requiring using them for this release, I'm trying to get them done and will be building some experimental stages based on them. Depending on how easy it ends up being, we might just use them for the release itself. They should be quite simple, at least for "default-linux" and its children. I'm putting in everything that is currently in the tree into my multi-parent profile group. Since I don't have to make any changes to the current profiles, it can live side-by-side in the tree with no adverse consequences, other than people having make certain commits in two places until we phase out the old profiles. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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