On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:17 AM M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > > The hierarchy method is indeed flawed, it would be better to have > something akin to USE flags for profiles (PROFLAGS?) .. so that you > could mingle different aspects without replicating sections of the > 'tree' to get the common configurations covered .. > > eg. LINUX + AMD64 + DEVELOPER + KDE > LINUX + ARM + DESKTOP > LINUX + X86 + CONTAINER > FREEBSD + DESKTOP > > And then have some rules which say that .. eg. KDE inherits DESKTOP (if > required) > > I know you're gonna bike-shed this to death, but its an idea ..
No need to bike-shed: https://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Profiles https://bugs.gentoo.org/523036 -- Rich
