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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 17:09:39
Message-Id: 200505011311.16967.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Sunday 01 May 2005 06:17 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > How long are all those non-cascaded profiles going to stick around?
3
4 each arch manager is responsible for their own profiles
5
6 all of the x86 ones have been pruned except for default-x86-2004.2 which we
7 will keep for a while since there isnt a smooth upgrade path to a newer
8 portage without it (older portages crash with cascaded make.defaults)
9
10 > They
11 > make profile changes a mess for anyone who wants to do something crazy
12 > like change default USE flags for everyone.
13
14 it's simple, dont bother touching the non-cascaded version. no one said you
15 had to :P
16 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>