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On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 09:34, John Davis wrote: |
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> Is this that necessary? Why couldn't we merge this stuff into the |
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> default 2004.0 profile? It would impact more users that way (and even |
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> more if it was integrated into the 1.4 profile). With stackable profiles |
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> on their way (the only blocker now is the bootstrap script which is |
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> being worked on), does it make sense to create yet another profile? |
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For consitency's sake, yes, it is necessary. I don't want to build a |
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machine today using the 2004.0 profile and build a machine tomorrow |
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using *the same profile* and have one using xfree and one using |
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xorg-x11. |
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It also diminishes the number of bugs that will crop up from confused |
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users. Personally, I believe that a profile should never be changed |
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once it is created, as it introduces many of those "undocumented |
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changes" that our users are starting to get tired of seeing. We have an |
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obligation to our users. A 24K profile being added to the portage tree |
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will not kill us. Hopefully, we'll be getting rid of all of the |
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"legacy" profiles in the future, and this profile will be deleted, but |
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for now, I think it is absolutely necessary. |
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I also think that this needs to be discussed on -dev and not -core, |
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which is why I sent my emails there, as this directly impacts our users |
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and is something I am sure they're interested in. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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