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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>, hardened@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:55:02
Message-Id: 201003051354.55511.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles by Samuli Suominen
1 On Thursday 04 March 2010 11:08:52 Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > Attached you can find the news item for up coming profile cleanup.
3
4 do profiles really need to be culled this often ? we used to let the tail run
5 longer and no one complained. it's easier to upgrade an old system when the
6 current profile is sane than having to create one from scratch because the new
7 profile uses features not actively available.
8
9 i.e. let's set a limit of like 3 years on profiles
10 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>