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On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 14:21 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > Do we really need a front-page news item for this? I don't think the |
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> > impact would be terribly great, as I suspect this affects a very small |
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> > number of people whom are likely to be more advanced users. I think |
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> > adding the info to GMN/gentoo-dev-announce/gentoo-user should suffice. |
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> > If someone thinks we need to do a front-page article, we can do that, |
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> > too. |
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> IIRC it will affect only 2008 profiles, and not older, so people have to |
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> switch profiles first? Which already involves knowing what you're doing? |
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> So what about putting up a GMN/front page article announcing all such |
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> changes in new profiles, and not just for debianutils removal. I don't |
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> recall there was this kind of article/documentation before, but might be |
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> wrong. |
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Ehh, I didn't say I was only doing it for 2008.0's profiles. I *could* |
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but there's not really much point. The package isn't needed in "system" |
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for anything to compile/run, so why should we force it onto everyone's |
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machines? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Games Developer |
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