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On 10 February 2013 14:06, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> 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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>> > 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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> -- |
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> Andreas K. Huettel |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> dilfridge@g.o |
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> http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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I suspect most people are interested in understanding what changed |
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(since deprecation means that the new thing is better than the old |
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one). Moreover, the news item is another way to assure them that |
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everything is not as bad as the initial "red warning" might had made |
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them think so and "keep calm and use Gentoo" ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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