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Hi, |
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On 2013-02-10 22:06, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2013, 14:34:14 schrieb Markos Chandras: |
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>>>> new profiles? As a Gentoo user who just got a giant red warning from |
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>>>> portage that his active profile was deprecated, I feel like many people |
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>>>> are going to be confused about this. |
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>>> |
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>>> Obviously a news item should precede any deprecation of stable profiles. |
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>> I think it is too late now. The big red warning is already there. |
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> To be honest I did not really see the necessity since the "big red warning" |
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> exactly tells you what to do (and even which profile to pick, which would be |
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> more complicated in a news item). |
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> Then again, that's a matter of personal preference, too. |
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Actually, if you could add a note that before switching to the new profile, |
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you should update portage if it's old, that would be even more user-friendly: |
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I just saw the big red warning on a not-so-well-maintained Gentoo box today, |
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switched to the new profile, and then portage would only do read-only |
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operations. So I had to figure out how to change the profile back manually |
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(because the old profile also isn't shown in eselect anymore), before I |
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could update portage and then switch to the new profile again. |
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Patrick. |
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