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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:53:28
Message-Id: 20080719185301.423645ee@anaconda.krait.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select by Nikos Chantziaras
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4 On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:39:04 +0300
5 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
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7 > Reading around on the net, it amazes me how many people are using
8 > developer profiles for their Gentoo because they think it's for software
9 > developers and don't see that it's for Gentoo developers and not
10 > intended for end users. They know the "Developer" installation profiles
11 > of other distros and think Gentoo's profiles are just the same (on those
12 > distros, selecting a dev profile just means it installs GCC + dev libs +
13 > IDEs by default.)
14 >
15 > Some kind of warning or other mechanism that does selecting this profile
16 > without knowing what you're doing would be a good idea.
17 >
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19 Maybe it should be called gentoo-developers or
20 gentoo-developers-only? :) Actually, that's not really meant as a joke.
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23 > gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list
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26 Regards,
27 Ferris
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29 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
30 Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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