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Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Support override of default profile EAPI (532670)
From: Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2014-12-22 19:54:36
Message-ID: 549876FC.3050407 () gentoo ! org
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On 12/22/2014 10:34 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 12/22/2014 04:59 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
>> The idea presented in the commit message header is very good. The
>> implementation discussed in the commit message body sounds a bit
>> messy, but I can't immediately think of another way to support this.
>
> Given existing state of the code, I think my implementation is quite
> reasonable. It's seems a bit messy because the functions/methods
> involved need to deal with 3 different kinds of profile nodes:
>
> 1) Regular profile nodes
>
> 2) User profile override directory in /etc/portage/profile
>
> 3) The root "profiles" directory, which is not really a profile node,
> but is used for repository-level configurations (package.mask being the
> most common example used by Gentoo)
>
> I will add a note about this to the commit message, since it's not
> completely obvious unless you have had to dive into this code for some
> reason.
The updated commit message is here:
https://github.com/zmedico/portage/commit/582965f8e8f0071d50abe2e9510abe6659e10242
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Thanks,
Zac
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