[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    [gentoo-desktop]  Re: Openssh really needed in desktop	profiles?
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2007-02-27 19:50:19
Message-ID: pan.2007.02.27.19.50.18 () cox ! net
[Download RAW message or body]

Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> posted
1172595296.8807.147.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org, excerpted below, on  Tue,
27 Feb 2007 11:54:56 -0500:

[on profile multi-inheritance]

> Actually, it wouldn't be as long as you think, thanks to the "obsolete"
> profile that already exists.  Rather than the usual "two release"
> deprecation, where we only deprecate two releases back and older, we
> would deprecate *everything* prior to 2007.0 and remove them all on the
> same date, which would likely be 6 months or so after.  Remember that
> even the 2006.1 stable portage (2.1) had support for multi-inheritance,
> we just haven't gotten around to using it.

I can't complain about that! =8^)  Six months is fine by me.  Of course I 
run all ~arch too, and am already running the amd64/2007.0 experimental 
profile, so I'm not in the class such a delay is trying to help.

Anyway, nice to see it being tried.

BTW, is there any app in the tree that helps to trace down where a 
particular setting is coming from?  We have emerge --info to list the 
final outcome (minus package.* and the like), but it can be more work 
than it should be to find where a specific setting is actually coming 
from in the profile cascade, and multi-inheritance isn't likely to make 
it any easier, so if there's such a utility, it'd sure come in handy!  
Unfortunately, I've not come across one yet. =8^(

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

-- 
gentoo-desktop@gentoo.org mailing list

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]