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On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 23:48 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> I've just removed a few deprecated profiles for amd64, and saw that |
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> there are still quite a lot of non-cascading profiles around. |
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> The following profiles say they have been removed by 2005.04.01: |
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> |
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> default-sparc-1.4 |
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> default-sparc-2004.0 |
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> default-sparc64-1.4 |
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> default-sparc64-2004.0 |
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> |
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> I hope this is not an April Fool's joke ;) |
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> There are also many other profiles which are probably deprecated for |
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> ages, but don't contain an information about when they will be taken out |
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> of portage. |
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> |
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> Other possible candidates for a clean-up: |
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> |
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> default-alpha-1.4 |
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> default-alpha-2004.0 |
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> default-ppc-1.4 |
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> default-ppc-2004.0 |
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> default-ppc-2004.1 |
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> default-ppc-2004.2 |
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> default-ppc64-2004.2 |
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> default-x86-2004.2 |
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> gcc33-sparc64-1.4 |
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> hardened-x86-2004.0 |
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> |
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> I didn't check them all, so I may be wrong, but some of them are |
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> deprecated for over a year now. |
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> |
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> There are also some cascading profiles which are really old and probably |
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> should be removed. |
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Last time that I checked, each arch needs at least one non-cascaded |
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profile, due to older versions of portage not working with cascaded |
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profiles. Either this, or users will not be able to upgrade from old |
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installations that have not been upgraded for some time. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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