Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for retirement of old gentoo 'versions'

[Dylan Carlson]

On Sunday 04 July 2004 6:10 pm, Marius Mauch wrote:

> I don't think that we want to force specific versions on users.
> If we do so they will start to modify the profiles locally which would
> be an even worse problem.

For current releases/profiles, I would agree.  For old profiles, I think 
it's reasonable to restrict packages.  It's easier to keep a profile 
together than it is to support the whole package tree against users who 
are using a 1.0 profile (or whatever).  I'm not sure it's possible for us 
to adequately QA old profiles -- moving targets.   It makes sense (in my 
way of thinking, anyway) to limit old profiles to things we know that 
work... things that are thoroughly tested against that profile.  While the 
majority of our manhours happen in the current and future profiles.   If 
people need newer packages, they would consider switching their machines 
to a newer profile.

> anyway this needs a GLEP before it could be considered.

Agreed.  I'm not part of the "enterprise" stuff, wherever that currently 
lives (it's not listed in Projects or Sub-projects, so I have no idea).  
But I would like to be a reviewer in that process at least, if not a 
contributor.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o]
Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F

--
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list