On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:05 AM <n...@troglodyte.be> wrote: > > 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. >
Your proposal was clear enough. I was just pointing out that it might make more sense to make common the thing that is minimal to prevent breakage/conflict, and make 13.0 something that could not be reliably inherited by the things below it in the hierarchy. Ie, it wouldn't really be a hierarchy any longer. And, honestly, it wasn't necessarily intended as a design that we ought to adopt, but more to get people to stop and think about the issues with how we're doing it today. Some of it might just be user mindset. A lot of people are drawn to Gentoo by minimalism, and I'd count myself among them in general. However, that leads to a certain tendency to start out with the most minimal starting point within Gentoo, and I don't know that this is a good idea. Even the desktop profile for Gentoo is pretty minimal compared to a lot of distros out there. While you can get Gentoo running with busybox and such and I completely support having profiles to enable this, I'm not sure this is the sort of thing that we want to point new users towards as a starting point. -- Rich
