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On 16:34 Sat 19 Jul , Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> Reading around on the net, it amazes me how many people are using |
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>> developer profiles for their Gentoo because they think it's for |
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>> software developers and don't see that it's for Gentoo developers and |
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>> not intended for end users. They know the "Developer" installation |
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>> profiles of other distros and think Gentoo's profiles are just the same |
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>> (on those distros, selecting a dev profile just means it installs GCC + |
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>> dev libs + IDEs by default.) |
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>> Some kind of warning or other mechanism that does selecting this |
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>> profile without knowing what you're doing would be a good idea. |
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> *shrug* If people would _read_ the documentation, such as |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml or |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_chap2, |
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> then they would know what the profiles are for. |
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I agree that this is a major problem, and I requested those additions to |
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the documentation to alleviate it. If it remains a problem, this is |
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something we need to figure out a better fix for. Perhaps we could abuse |
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the 'deprecated' file in profiles with this type of message. |
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Developers are basically our core audience, and we need to make things |
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work well for them. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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