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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing the server profiles...
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:55:26
Message-Id: 50F64E82.6080309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing the server profiles... by Michael Palimaka
1 On 16/01/13 08:52, Michael Palimaka wrote:
2 > On 16/01/2013 10:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 -> 13.0 transition
7 >> would
8 >> be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather
9 >> useless)
10 >> server profiles.
11 >>
12 >> The easiest way to do this would be to
13 >> * just not copy the server profiles from 10.0 to 13.0 and
14 >> * have the deprecation warning for "10.0/server" point to "13.0" (i.e.
15 >> prompt
16 >> users to upgrade from the 10.0 server profile to the 13.0 base profile).
17 >>
18 >> Opinions?
19 >> [I'm not doing anything with this regard unless a clear consensus is
20 >> found
21 >> here on the list. Otherwise I'll copy the dirs 1:1.]
22 >>
23 >> Cheers, A
24 >>
25 >>
26 > +1. Cutting down of the number of useless profiles in the long run is a
27 > great idea.
28
29 specially since it will make repoman faster. it takes a lot of time for
30 it to process a lot of profiles. i mean, once it's gone from profiles.desc